Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving

You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.

Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act

If you want to attain peace, live peacefully

Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices.

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.

It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.

Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart.

Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

If you cannot feed one hundred hungry people, then just feed one really well.

Running a business is not the same as being president of the United States.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.