We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

I wish I knew how to get you back. And apparently fate won't let me give up"From Central Park Song: a Screenplay

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm no attack dog.

A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.

So easy, when you know how.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

I believe the human race is ready to make a quantum leap forward spiritually and morally.

You’re not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy’s also having a hard time—the only question is who breaks down first.

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.