The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.'

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

I never expected to leave college early-especially after just one year.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.

It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.