By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.

When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.

Live in this moment ... for it is the only moment we have!

God has been FAITHFUL to me, that why I have FAITH in Him.

You can never win resentment with an argument—only love can do that.

Three golden keys that unlock the door to excellence are determination, hard work and practice.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

I'm a big fan of 'Glee.' I think it's really smart. And I think it's well-timed. But you can't not be surprised at the reception this show's received. It's really something else.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have no church background at all.

The Dark Dark is a far slower project, clearly, and that's a relief. I look for slowness anywhere I can find it.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.