If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.

It takes a long time to become young.

There are many ways to meditate. Whatever opens us, softens the heart, makes as alive to this human world and helps us to bear it is our path.

Take care of yourself right now. Befriend what's happening, not just who you're supposed to be or what the world should be like.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.