Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.

We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.

Mindful eating is a way to become reacquainted with the guidance of our internal nutritionist.

Resting in this moment, we have no age.

If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror.

Effie Seabright, we’ve been fated to meet you for a long time.

I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.

It takes only five minutes to look nice before you go out.

Use love, use love as a bridge.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.