We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

It's important to lighten up a bit!

Don’t expect success to fall from the sky if it didn't evaporate from the sweat of your hands.

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

Joy is the happiness of love - love aware of its own inner happiness. Pleasure comes from without, and joy comes from within, and it is, therefore, within reach of everyone in the world.

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.