I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves.

Help your brother's boat across and your own will reach the shore.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.

The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.

I've always been a shy person.