You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.

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.

Segregation shaped me education liberated me.

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

There's more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look.

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

Are you struggling with sin? You don’t need more will power. You need more of Jesus.

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.