The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.

Unconditional love is the greatest gift we can ever give.

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

Don't wear eyeliner with too much facial hair. It looks strange.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.