Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.

Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

Empathy is the most powerful weapon [...]

I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

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

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.