All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world - the problem is only when we believe in those roles.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

Hope may seem frail. But in the face of adversity, hope can be our strongest ally.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

Even one justice can advance or reverse the progress of our journey.

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

If you expect your money to take care of you, you must take care of your money.