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

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.

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

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

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.

He was a boom boom shake the room " kind of guy

It is better to have live followers, then dead enemies.

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.

On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?

I put the words down and push them a bit.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

She’s my mate; that makes her mine. Forgetting that will see your neck no longer serving its purpose.” “I love it when you talk dirty,” she purred. “Give my regards to Lindsay.