We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.

Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.

Mindful eating is a way to become reacquainted with the guidance of our internal nutritionist.

Resting in this moment, we have no age.

If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It loses its terror.

New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

The first time I was in this state recruiting, that's when I knew I wanted to be a Gator, because I saw the influence and saw what it's all about. This goes a long time.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

I was never motivated by money. I think above all else about the happiness of my family, regardless of money.

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.