Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.

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.

Wisdom isn’t expensive, but ignorance is.

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well.

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.

I have no plans to slow down.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be.

When you look at all of the great players who ever played the game, they all had that other gear that they could go to, and it makes a world of difference.