Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.

We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.

Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.

Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.

Don't unzip your chest to show all your scars, hold it tight with love and let them bloom like flowers.

It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.

Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

Positively dealing with the unexpected by looking for solutions, not excuses, is the choice you need to make.

I'm trying to think if there was ever the Lenny Bruce-y, observational, George Carlin kind of magician: "You know what I hate is ..." I don't think that ever existed.

Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.

Do things that are uncomfortable to do. I say that because women tend to step back from things that they don't know about. And the second, most important, one is, push through the fear.

I'm confident in some of the things that I wear, regardless of what other people are wearing.

We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.