...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others' intentions. (p. 27)

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)

The hunger to know is the hope of search.

Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

In the end it's not about how many breaths you took. In the end it's about the moments that took your breath away.

I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.

The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

To be in the dance bar you have to be young, good looking, able to dance, and comfortable talking to people.

Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.