"Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors. — Aunguttara Nikaya"

"There is no way to peace; Peace is the Way. There is no way to happiness; Happiness is the Way. There is no way to love; Love is the Way."

"Stable happiness doesn’t come from getting everything we want, because we never will; true happiness comes from wanting whatever we get."

"Whatever our circumstances, everything can feel so simple, so beautiful, and so right when we no longer pay attention to the mind’s incessant chatter."

"It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament."

"Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don’t really live at all."

"There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened."

"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it. Anonymous"

"The earth isn’t solid. It is made of molecules and atoms, tiny universes filled with space. It is a place of mystery, light, and magic, if you only open your eyes."

"Secret’s value is not in what you know, but in what you do."

"Better to live Until You die."

"Windows of opportunity open and then close. By staying in the present, handling what’s in front of us, and riding the wave of opportunity when it comes, we follow the natural order of things."

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

"Knowing what to do is not usually the problem; the elusive goal becomes translating intentions into action and resolutions into results."

"You've become bored to things because they exist only as names to you. The dry concepts of mind obscure your direct perception."

"Experts devote their life to training. Masters devote their training to life."

"Urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does. At"

"Think of death as a transformation — a bit more radical than puberty, but nothing to get particularly upset about."

"Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day. — Stuart Wilde"

"Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner — a corner they never turned. And the source of it all was the human mind."

"The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God. —Meister Eckehart"

"Reason has survival value, but when overused at the expense of our intuition, feeling, and spirit, reason cuts us off from discovering our full potential."

"The conventions of language reveal the ways we see the world."

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."

"Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win."

"It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back."

"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America."

"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."

"This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!"

"The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive."

"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime."

"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame."

"I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible."

"When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there."

"The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other."

"In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!"

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."

"El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice."

"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is."

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."

"We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say."

"It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America."

"We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'."

"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure."

"Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever."

"It's a very good historical book about history."

"The future will be better tomorrow."

"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."

"I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake."