It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

I always feel comfortable, basically in any situation except perhaps airports.

Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

Read, read read. Read everything.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.