Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

Whatever you think you are, that's not what you are.

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

Everyone is wrong about the future.

Hope is a most beautiful drug.

No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

Time is the only thing you can't buy.

There is no love which does not become help.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.