Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.

Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear.

I don't miss my prayers and I don't miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.

When you read a book, and it's really, really beautiful, you're so engaged you forget to breathe. If you're in a car accident, and everything moves slowly, you can be shocked into the present. The past and the future disappear.

I'm a full disclosure kind of person.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.