When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.

Just live well. Just live

Sometimes death is just the beginning

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.

Politicians are supposed to be empathetic. And, yes, I am, actually.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

Fresh water is like a fossil fuel; we should not waste it.