It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our mind?

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

My new favorite quote is, "Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers.

...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.

They say dragons never truly die. No matter how many times you kill them.

I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym. My husband and I are just really laid back people.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express.

It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.

I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right out.

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.