The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.