What may be on the surface looks like one thing but it's often a much larger problem.

We are stronger than we think we are. We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it. We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

There are so many people in the communities in need and so many organizations in need. People are doing amazing, beautiful things just to keep the world from not hurting more today than yesterday.

It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

I do think men fear female intuition.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.

Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

Now, ' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap.

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

We have to believe in free will, we have no other choice.

Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.