Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.

Once again Love, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing, seizes me.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory

Just put on your makeup and get out there and do it.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.

You get a little stir crazy during the week.

You live and die by results, I asked to be judged on that and people have.