Like Dinah says, “We can only play the cards we’ve been dealt. It doesn’t do any good to wish about things you can’t change.

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

Put your heart into even the smallest seemingly insignificant acts possible. Then be patient enough for the universe to give back to you what you reap.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

I think above all, what we need with Iran is patience.

You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

People cannot live completely by themselves.

You owe it to yourself to live beautifully. And I am.

It does not take many words to tell the truth