In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

In life we all have choices.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

No fashion is ever a success unless it is used as a form of seduction.

Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.

Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

The unusual wins out over the usual.

I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs