We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality.

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.

Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.

If you want to make the best of yourself you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.