In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

This is a very difficult assignment for the United States, to hang in there and help this young democracy survive.

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

I don't understand people who won't sign autographs or have pictures taken.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.