Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Meditation changes your character.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if.

There is no sorrow like a love denied Nor any joy like love that has its will.

I'm not a good guitar player.

If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.