The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

When you open your heart, only then will the light come in.

...life didn't always have to be so serious. That life was to be lived. That life was one great adventure, to be lived well and to the full.

The difference between you and me, is the different reflection that we both see.

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Your hands can't catch what your eyes can't see.

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

It would probably astound each of them beyond measure to be let into his neighbor's mind and to find how different the scenery there was from that in his own.