The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

A mistake of one man is not the mistake of mankind.

Loving someone doesn't just include that person, Ben. Loving someone means accepting all the things and people that person loves, too. And I will. I do. I promise.

The best climbers have the will to hold on. They won't give up and keep trying over and over.

I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.

She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.