I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet.

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.

The brain waves of ordinary people during insight experiences are unique. Their brains are in special states.

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.

I don't want to put anyone down, but you won't see any twerking from me.

Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.

I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.