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?

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.

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.

Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

We live in a world of banal miracles.

There is a wonderful power that comes when you know that someone will achieve something great due to your help.

There are things that life demands of every person living on the surface of the earth.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.

I only did my duty, and what I was told to do as well as I could.

When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.