Real love allows for failure and suffering.

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.

The reason why you don´t have success is, because you don´t understand the difference between wasting and spending time.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

I have songs to write and songs to sing and planes to fly and I want to see my old yellow truck again.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.

What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

Preconceived ideas can sometimes become barriers.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.