I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

We are with ourselves 24/7, so we should try to treat ourselves with the most kindness, love and respect.

The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

Translate all self-judgments into self-empathy.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.