You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud they are lost to me dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them like bulbs in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

There are other things that I could do, but there's really nothing that I love as much as horse racing.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.

Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.

A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart.