To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.

People can smile even when terrified.

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

What do you believe in ?""People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it. To tell you the truth, nothing else seems to me of any importance.

The Atlanta Braves are really all that our children know about this crazy baseball life, and we are so thankful for this upbringing for them.

Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

Stay at the center and let all things take their course.

Second best is not good enough really. Although if someone turned around now and said 'you will be promoted, but you will come in second' then I would take it.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.