Talking to each other instead of talking about each other is not some kind of nicey-nice (ph) idea. It's the difference between societies falling apart and societies getting something wonderful done.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

You can never totally control your ego, but you can understand it enough to make it control itself by convincing it that you are doing what it wants.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.