Each of us holds human destiny in our hands. It will be completely determined by how the mind feels about itself.

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.

The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.

True peace of mind is calm in your heart that you can’t explain.

Next to God, Family is the best thing.

Greed is like a dark side of every man, and you could not see it from the appearance of a man, but in the inside the greedy beast already dominating you.

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.

Bernard King is the only guy that ever scared the hell out of me.

Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.