Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

My mother did not like children.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I’m talking to people. It doesn’t always work, and one shouldn’t always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The less you know, the more you believe.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.