Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.

If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.