That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.

The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

He was in uniform, gun at his hip, expression dialed to Dirty Harry, and just looking at him had something pinging low in Chloe’s belly.

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

I can see the warmth. He's falling for me.

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.