In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

It's a wonder Hell don't open up and swallow her as the highlight of the service.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

You know that if you [Hillary Clinton] did win, you would approve that [Trans-Pacific Partnership], and that will be almost as bad as NAFTA. Nothing will ever top NAFTA.

As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I think my mother was very spiritual.

The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.

In everything the middle road is best.

He's the equivalent of the Spanish David Beckham.

I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people's minds and souls.