Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.

"You're really not that old." You know, the old grandpa thing - Grandpa Rossy with KB [Kris Bryant] and Rizz [Anthony Rizzo]. That's how everyone treats me.

For me especially, I travel a lot, and with the weather change and everything, my skin gets dehydrated very fast.

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.