In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.

Abandon hope.

Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.

How do evil people find the strength to do good?

Life goes on with or without you!

Miracle focus gospel is creating an illusion in peoples head

We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.

But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.

Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish."

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

There is no patch for stupidity.

[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.

Ryanair's biggest achievement? Bringing low fares to Europe and still lowering em. Biggest failure? Hiring me.