I restore myself when I’m alone.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Travel teaches toleration.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

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

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

I don’t try to control my days.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

We cannot learn men from books.