The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn't wander.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.

Curves are so emotional.

You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples.