Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

And now the story begins for the last time.

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

If Hillary Clinton becomes president, America is going to be in some mess.

Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.

At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.