Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.

There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.

We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.