If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

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.

Mama always did tell a good story, built a solid background, then deftly lead her engrossed listener through a series of doorways, enticing them in before delivering the coup de grâce.

Soldiers forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

The last Christian died on a cross.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.

I really like Billie Holiday's husky voice, and I'd definitely like to find out more about her.

Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.