No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

The heirs of Jefferson and Madison would be the Democratic-Republicans, the heirs of Hamilton and Adams would be the Federalists. But the heirs of Washington would be all Americans.

I let myself be sad. I let myself think of him.

The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

If God exists He must be manifest somehow in matter, and His ways are what science is discovering.

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.

I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.

A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.