So often we operate from ideas of love that don’t fit our reality.

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.

When you can live forever what do you live for?

You're my equal. And as much as that means we have each other's backs in public, it also means we that grant each other the gift of honesty - of truth.

There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

The truer the facts the better the fiction.