Mindfulness is so much wiser and more robust than our inner critic.

Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

You can't be everything to everyone

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.