Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.