No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

The star rises from the east. Watch out!

Vision involves more than just seeing or being shown.

Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got.

Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.

These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.

America - love it or leave it.