The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

Wolves are brotherly, " he said. "They love each other, and if you learn to speak to them, they will love you too.

Indecision is the reluctance or inability to pass a judgment on an issue under consideration. Indecision means you have come to crossroads and you cannot make your mind.

It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly.

The clock moves on and hours pass too quickly

The more the change, the more it is the same thing.

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.