The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Meditation changes your character.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

Bullying is wrong. It is not okay to bully others back because they bullied you.We learned our lesson with Don the Goat

Miss. My. Wife.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.

Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.

The only true allegiance a politician has is to his own re-election.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.