We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

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.

Sometimes it’s best to stop searching for your passion. Instead, follow your curiosity and see where it leads.

Just because many have tried and failed, doesn't make the task impossible.

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.

economy spoils pleasure

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

Fans have been very important in my career. Even though I'm just doing me and doing my thing, they're the captains of this ship.