In our endless past lives, we've all done everything, you name it, we've done it. Good, bad, intermediate.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

God will pardon me. It is His trade.

I try to dream about peaceful things, beaches, that is what I cannot understand. Why are they chasing me?

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

God loves you so much that he is willing to hold something from you for the perfect time!

I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.

A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.