The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.

The things one wants the most, are not things after all.

In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.

You can’t change the past. But with God’s help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path . . . a better path . . . His path.

I believe in times of adversity there’s a line that is sometimes drawn, a line that separates your old life from your new. You cross the line, you’ll never be the same.

She feels the anger quiet into a briny resentment. The bitterness floats like an inkblot in her mind’s eye.

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'

Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.

One of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me.