Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

Who are you not to be yourself?

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

He was one of those capital M Men.

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

You're financially independent if you have $15,000 coming in and $14,900 going out.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit.

You need to make time for family no matter what happens in your life.

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.