If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.

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.

All I can say is [kids] have turned out to be terrific young women. We were concerned mostly about whether they'd develop an attitude, right?

Please clean up after your dogma.

A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

If you care about animals, there is one and only one choice: go vegan. Can you choose not to be vegan? Sure. You can choose not to care.

The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road.

I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.

The true is not material reality only.

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

The implements to him who can handle them.