I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

I am just so appreciative of God's love. It's higher than any mountain, wider than any ocean, and wider than the whole universe. His love is just that amazing!

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty special.

Lord Grantham: ‘My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.

Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.

Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

I watch a lot of TV. I love nothing more than having a good TV show on DVD, to just plow through.