The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body.

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.

With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust form our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

By balancing your breathing, you can control your emotions and calm your mind. From the quiet mind arises the wisdom and insight that help you make good choices.

When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin.

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

. . . when you are stressed, if you take three deep breaths before you say or do anything, this will help prevent you from making choices you might regret later.

Conscience is the manifestation of our divine nature, the absolute truthfulness that we all have inside, that resides beyond the instinctive desire to survive.

That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'

There is a time and a place for everything. There is a time and a place for talk. And there is a time and a place for action.

It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

I've campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He's campaigned for me; I've campaigned for him, good friend.

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.