Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.

It was the women of afghanistan, my mother believed, who-once they’d been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country

I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.

...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.

...mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less.

You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.

The thing about Americans, ” she said, “is that you’re very concerned about everything all the time.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...

Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.

A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Batista does look pretty mad.

Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the problems.