The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Man is not made for the Sabbath. Rather, the Sabbath is made for man

China's success lies on being a communist community within and a capitalist company outside.

So much importance pressed into so few words. It was just like Jacin.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.