Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough.

The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.

The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.

Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.

The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

There Is Only One Gospel... But The Preaching Is Different.

Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are.

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].

I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

Talent will not always find its way but commitment will.

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.