There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now.

I never leave a dog alone in a car on a hot day. I make sure it's with an elderly person holding a baby.

Don't waste the pretty

The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

Do not forget to drink a lot of water to stay feeling good.

Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.