A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.

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.

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

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.

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

Not everything happens for a reason

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".

I think first of all you have to be there for the right reason.

My days of being a full time wrestler are over. Nothing wrong with that, that's just the general progression of your career and your life.

Its always important to invest in young talents and the talents of tomorrow.

I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.

Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.

The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].