Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.

We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.

We can change the brain by changing the mind.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak.

She gave herself up to the waves of the storm. If they drowned, it would be together, a shattered vessel on the sea, a collision of longing and desire.

You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

It is very hard because there are not a lot of female driven scripts.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

In the garden of existence, there exists two beautiful roses: Music and love.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.