I sometimes feel tremendous compassion and helplessness.

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.

The break of a family is the break of society.

It's just hard, " Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

I played soccer because my friends did. Besides we got sodas afterwards.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.

At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?