Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Love is not what we become but who we already are

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

A woman does not marry with a man for his wealth, unless he is too rich and a man does not marry with a girl for her beauty, unless she is too beautiful.

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.

The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.

We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.