This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

To experience a great result is for everyone to be part of extending the reign of God’s love

I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.

The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding who he likes REALLY as his buddy with his behavior.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

The truth has no temperature.

You don't touch my face! It's a birth right! This was given to me by God! You do not touch my face!

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness

How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

Someone who only wants to play sold-out shows will find a tempo that works at the shows and then focus on making that kind of music, but maybe they'll miss out on other things because of it.