When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.

There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.

All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.

Beware of unfriendly friends who come nicely dressed in friendly suits.

The beginning of wisdom starts from persistently living up to your responsibilities in life, despite your circumstances.

There is no armor against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.

Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

Separation of Church and State is the perineum of America and the episiotomy didn't hold.

Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name