If you expect your life to be full of ups and downs, then your mind will be much more peaceful.

Be blissful and enjoy your life; do not let yourself become obsessed with anything. Determine to use the rest of your life to benefit others as much as possible.

When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.

The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.

Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist.

Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does not help you; it does not help others. In order to really help others, you need to gain knowledge-wisdom.

First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.

No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.

Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.

Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

I have never voted in my life.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

My mom has always been very open, very liberal. So I grew up with that, and I can appreciate everything that she did and went through and was exposed to.

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

Of two Evils we take the less.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?