Love is the great protector, protecting us from anger and jealousy.

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies.

We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.

Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.

Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a result of others' kindness.

All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy.

The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter.

If everyone practiced cherishing others, many of the major problems of the world would be solved in a few years.

When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears.

We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.

He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.

Behavior speaks… Before you even open your mouth, your actions have told me who you are and what you’re about.

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

Art is a self-replicating force.

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.

I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.

Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.

All fires burn out at last.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.