It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.

Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith.

Keep God in your heart like you keep money in the bank.

The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.