Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery

It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.

Actually, something is always happening. People who don't love the moment are always trying to achieve something, but when one is on the way, every moment is 'it.'

If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.

Every moment is a moment. Every moment makes a certain request of us. The question is how we answer it.

Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention.

The very basis of the work- the very core of the work, is that everything we do can come always new.

A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

You can never lose time and get it back again.

You're nothing if you're not special.

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

Some friendship is closely akin to treachery.