I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

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

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

I never make conscious decisions.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.