Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

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.

I don’t think you remember me as well as I remember us

Everything that happens around and within us is a reflection of our thoughts, imaginations, and actions.

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

The trouble you're expecting never happens

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

Hate never ends hate. Only love can.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that?

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.