If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.

The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.

There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

My life is sacred being.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving.

I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

One nip from a dragon and you're down? Get up, you craven school (boy/girl)!

He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.