Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we’re hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

When we bring deep awareness to whatever's bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently.

There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.

When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.

I'm leaving on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again

If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.