Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

I feel like I've been blessed with some athletic ability and I'd like to take advantage of it.

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.