Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.

A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

"Wholeheartedly" means that we give our time, love, and energy unstintingly.

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

If we do not try, we will not know.

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Aurora is right,” Willa said, sounding sad to be agreeing with her.

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.

You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,' ... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have.

We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.

I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.

Freelance isn't for everyone - you've got to be aggressive and enjoy working alone. But you could make more money than you ever imagined.

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.