The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.

Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

The best way I can mentor and lead those around me is to embody these qualities myself.

Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.

We can change the brain by changing the mind.

A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can’t stay still.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.

Use testimonial letters from satisfied customers at every opportunity.

What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood.

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

For the entire Desiderata go to Inspirational Poems page

Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.