Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

I always thought of Annenberg as my sort of guy.

I'm basically a musician.

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.

Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the problems.