When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

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.

You alwaysdrop by, to en-lighten my mind, when my wings arefeeling heavy &i've forgottenhow tofly.

Find your passion, it makes all the difference.

I'm just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

The Earth doesn't care what we need; Mother Nature doesn't negotiate.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy