Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Consistency for me is everything.

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.