The moment between before and after is called Truth.

If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.

The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.

You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life

If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.

The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.

Whatever you think is delusion.

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

Make positive effort for the good.

I love you too, Will Blakelee, " she whispered, leaning in to kiss him again.

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10

If I had a box full of all the evils of the world, I'd open it just a little way and push you inside. Then I'd close it again for always.

Everyone carries seeds when they talk to each other.

We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.