Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

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

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‚Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?‘ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Law is always better than war.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.