The historian Arthur Schlesinger has pointed out that people tend to get interested in politics again every 30 years. The universe moves in cycles of three. The number figures in everything from Pythagoras's theory that the universe is based on three to the Father-the-Son-and-the-Holy- Ghost to the three-sided pyramidal shapes that intersect in the Jewish Star of David. The notion of the mystical three, metaphysically, spiritually, and even politically, is quite interesting to me.

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.

Every problem emerges from the false belief we are separate from one another, and every answer emerges from the realization we are not.

No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen to the morning news while you're in the shower, read the headlines as you are walking out the door, make sure you're keeping tabs on everything: the wars, the economy, the gossip, the natural disasters. . . But if you want the day ahead to be full of miracles, then spend some time each morning with God.