Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Meditation changes your character.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Kelsey flopped next to him, propping her elbow on the back of the couch so she was facing him. "Do you have something against happiness?""Yes. Don't tell anyone, but I moonlight as the Grinch.

I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

Once you squeeze toothpaste out, you can't put it back into the tube. The same is true with our words. Once we say something hurtful, we can't take it back

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.

You can grow apart from people very quickly.

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.