Personal love is concentrated universal love.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

You never lose friends. You just discover who your real friends are.

The weak thrive on indulgence.

I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.

In America, We have surrendered our middle class to the whims of foreign countries. We take care of them better than we take care of ourselves.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

Today could be the start of something amazing.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.