The engine got most of the attention, but the "little red caboose," which was also brown, green, blue or yellow, was where the action was.

Caboose, cabin car, crummy, way car, van, ape cage, throne room, hack, buggy, the office, shanty, monkey house, bedbug haven-American railroaders have known the last car on a freight train by all these names and more, and often as an ever-so-humble home.

I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be.

Meditation simply means … to pay attention: it has nothing to do with standing on your head in a corner making strange noises in foreign tongues.

If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.

She's mesmerized. She's like what's all this attention for me. She's happy I can tell.