Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Ooooohh, I heard you had an STD, but I thought it was just a rumor. Does it really burn?" - Moose in reference to Jadyn's "burning bush" -

The church is God's remnant in a country, able to change the life of the nation

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

There was nothing like a trip to the gynecologist to make one feel just a little violated. Charley

Respect other people regardless of the level they are at... or the level you are at. When you hand out respect, you get it back.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

I do six shows a week. Sometimes my voice gets tired, but I love it.