Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.

We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking.

I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

I really don't believe in abortion. It's like killing a baby.

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.

There's nothing more human than two people making love.

Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.