You need to become more genuine to who you are. So, people pushing you can help take you to the level where you really understand the principles and enter them into action.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

Don’t look at your circumstance. Be courageous!

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

[My] Books are like puppies and children: you love each one for different reasons. I don't actually have a favorite because, if I were honest, I'm always more excited about what is coming.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.

Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.

She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.

I love that Jesus showed He cared while at the same time telling the truth.

I'm a golf junkie, but I'm a sports fan. I'll watch pretty much everything that's on.