The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

There is so much we just can't see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.

The trouble with life is that we lead it forwards and understand it backwards.

There is no such complicated situation which people could not make more complicated.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

No price is too high to pay to try to make the financial system go on a little bit longer. But ultimately it can't be saved, because of the mathematics that are involved.

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one.

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.

I don't have a set style, but I try not to dress like everyone else.

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.