The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

Weisheit kann Angst nicht bannen, Angst jedoch kann Weisheit bannen.

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

In everything I do, my children come first, and my husband. I just think it's so important to maintain family stability.

If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.

Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.

People tend to rally around power.

If anything matters, then everything matters.