When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

To live on the edge requires an exceptional ability to balance.

No matter what, we have to keep moving forward, even if we have to crawl.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

I am not a player to have regrets. I should have stayed at certain clubs longer, but I don't regret.

I believe he [Saddam Hussein] wants a better relationship with America.

Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.

I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good.