To be human is to be lost in the woods.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.

I used to hate exposure situations. What is generally referred to as 'red carpet.'

I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual.

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.