Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Love is not what we become but who we already are

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn't choose rain only for bad people.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.

This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country in the culture that binds us to it.

I think I'm a love agnostic - not sure, one way or another, if it really exists.

At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.