Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

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.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?

If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect.