When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way.

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.

When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.

It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Tomorrow is more sure than just about anything else in the entire world.

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.