Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.

I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

Hope says: one dayyou will see her, if you will only wait.Despair says:all you have left of her is your bitterness.Beat, heart…The earthhas not swallowed everything.

I honor Earth First for having the guts to do the things they do. It's not for me, but I understand why they do what they do. And, ultimately, we all help each other.

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

The evidence is truly overwhelming that disease is pluri-causal.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it.

By all means break the rules.