Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.

If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.

No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

Your conduct matters a great deal. What’s in your mind matters even more.

The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness - to be rejected.

If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

There is no way to be in cyclic existence without creating the causes of suffering.

In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use.

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

I am not going to engage in the kind of behavior that you see from Donald Trump.

People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.

Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.