I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

The Trial of Poppy Moon is free over Easter.

For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.

Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.