To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy.

Hatred does not help us alleviate our pain even in the slightest.

Instead of catching ourselves after we first felt angry, we develop a visceral sensitivity to what's happening within us in the moment & through mindfulness, we can shape our reaction right away.

Building trust takes long- years, sometimes decades. It takes a second, a word, or a misstep to lose it. Regaining trust takes even longer.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

It is a kind of self-projection of our sins when we insist on other people becoming good. In reality, we wish to become good, but because we are unable to, we demand it of others and insist on this.

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.