Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.