Whenever possible, choose peace.

There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without becoming a prisoner.

Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone.

The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.

Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.

We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.

Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all, reaches all, and blesses all.

Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.

We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.

It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which is quite a paradox.

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

Now we realize that time is our most valuable resource, and every minute we spend in one of these meetings just sitting there is time wasted.

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

I've found that replacing one thing for another only means you don't yet know where the glitches are.

Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.

The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters.

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.

There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.

I try very hard to keep my eyes from darting to Sean because I'm quite certain that no one will be able to miss how I look at him and how I find him looking back.