The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything.

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.

Bugs never bug my head. They are amazing. It is the activities of humans which actually bug me all the time.

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Love is the weapon of the wise.

A slave is but half a man.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.

Committees do harm merely by existing.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

There's this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it.