The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

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.

Inspiration is everywhere.

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

Jesus was born again in the pit of hell. .. The church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

We cannot resist change, but we can choose the direction of change.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.