The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.

You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough.

The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.

Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.

The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We may not control a situation, but we can control our responses and actions.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that. I want to do everything I can to play basebal.

I can stick uphill ice, on my saucer

The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score.