Have we arrived at our own faith and our own path or simply internalized the beliefs of parents, clergy, spouse, or friends?

We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

Everyday brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.

May I be at peace. May I awaken to the light of my own true nature. May I be healed and may I be the source of healing for others.

The question is not whether we will barbecue, but how we will barbecue.

Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves.

When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.

The question is not if we are going to die or not, but how are we going to live.

Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a better place. Service is indeed the gift that keeps on giving.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.

Whatever you believe is true, is.

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

I am there to play tennis and represent the U.S., but I'm also aware that not everyone's going to be able to think that way.

Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.

Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.