Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Pursue your dreams with great passion.

Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application.

Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

You could be winning and feel like you're losing because the scorecard you're using is unfair.