Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough.

The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.

The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.

The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

There will be no enemy if you try to kill him with the power of your love.

Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming — you simply, are. Go easy.

Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing, " covering myself with one of my daybooks, and she said, "It's Something!

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.