How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

You’ll only know the answers once you love.

How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord's, not ours?

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience

Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.

Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really at lesser things, such as getting into a certain college.