Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease.

We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it.

I know that I am a part of something so tremendous, so great, that, if for this reason only, it is holy.

Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best.

Children need teachers who have stars in their eyes themselves and who treat them with respect.

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.

The more people know, the more they forgive.

What's it like to be on the other side of me?

People come up with resolutions that don’t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.