The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

The height of your accomplishments is determined by the depth of your convictions.

Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.

Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers

Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.

Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.