I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.

We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.

What they want, of course, isn't what you can give them. What you're selling is the hope you can.

When you don’t come closer to the goal and don’t make everyday steps for achieving it, we will not get the results we inwardly set out to attain

Though a smile is little work, its effects are long lasting.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.