The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have.

If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.

We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this quality of deep acceptance towards ourselves.

Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.

To keep faith with life is to experience that everything- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in the puzzle of our existence.

I certainly spent many years in my early life chasing all over the globe for meaning and purpose. I'd feel like I'd found it, then it would fade away again.

He'd known her for five months, but felt like a lifetime for how attracted he was to her.

I know you're the only pistol champion we have, but I'd rather they no see enough of you to hit. You're also the only wife I have...""You're so sweet.'"...at the moment.

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

I like to be able to connect with people. And that's how I connect, right away. I like to really talk to somebody. To me, it makes my night more interesting.

How sweet Japanese woman is! All the possibilities of the race for goodness seem to be concentrated in her.

I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.

The imperfect is our paradise.