Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.

If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion.

All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It's always with us. It always has been, and always will be. When it arises in us, we've simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are.

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.

The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.

The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.

When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.

There's no difference between what is seen and the mind that sees it.

Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.

To make dollars from cents you have to have sense.

Will is intention favored by emotions.

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

I see that the West is beginning to separate the question of nuclear armament from the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.

Having a child at 55... that's optimism.