I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

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.

I know that God is truth, he holds this still—Beyond me he bears all his free will.

In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

Where there is a will there's a law suit.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

I can't spend my whole day talking to people.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.