We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.

The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.

I think daily life is where the lessons come in - that's where the tests and the growth come in.