If we do not try, we will not know.

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.

A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

"Wholeheartedly" means that we give our time, love, and energy unstintingly.

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

I can speak of you now to anyone because I’ve stopped wanting anything like what I once wanted from you.

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.

My fangs extended then, automatically, like her voice were a fang charmer, and I followed impulsively, thinking about blood.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.

Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

There's a whole chapter about my unfortunate manscaping accident. I was so focused on, "I've got to look this certain way and do this to be ready for this." So I missed out on a lot.