Figure out what you believe in and what you're willing to fight for, then figure out what your special talents are and apply them to it.

The one thing I would tell everyone - myself included - would be to just chill out. Life, by design, provides us with plenty of drama without us having to augment it and invent more. Just chill.

That same intense, overpowering, and all-encompassing love that you feel for your family can also be utterly terrifying.

Be bold. Be kind. Be brave.

Accept the gift and honor the giver.

Love is real. In every single moment, there are only two choices: love or fear. I can tell you from experience that love is exponentially more powerful. And a hell of a lot more fun.

Always look for common ground, but don't ever be afraid to choose sides.

Create the world you want to see.

Learn how to let go and say a good good-bye.

Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy.

One of the gifts of parenthood is that it forces you to be a bit more conscious about it, if only because you quickly realize that those kids are learning from your every action.

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.

From a distance I finally see, I completely understand, As I move forward to take my second step, Followed by a third step, Oh! You are easy to love like a sponge.

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

And she already has her treasure: it’s you.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.