Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.
If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'
Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything - to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?
Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.
You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?