Meditation is a way to take us to a deeper level of awareness.

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.

Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.

If the challenge seems a bit too overwhelming, that's the one you want. Take it on & let it pull you up.

My focus is not on any one particular election or any one particular candidate. My focus is on the issues and policy that will make a difference expanding opportunity.

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.