The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired into our neurological and emotional network.

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.

Dare to struggle and dare to succeed.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.

It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

My first go-round was in a group called Heltah Skeltah, I did that, it was cool.