Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.
The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.
There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.
We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.
Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.
I like the fact that Chris Rock is one of the best stand ups ever and still is a really good actor. And a great professional and a good friend and a wonderful human being.
May the spirit of Christ so fill us afresh that we might in turn be a refreshment and an encouragement to one another.
Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.
We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.