Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.

Live fully each day to the full . . .

Hate poisons your life.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

I am daily making myself what I am.

A possession can't make you happy.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

Put time and effort to promote your personal brand.

You can't go by what a girl says, when she's giving you the devil for making a chump of yourself. It's like Shakespeare. Sounds well, but doesn't mean anything.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

Grace is power, not just pardon.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair.