To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

The holy faith is the fear of God.

Life is choice. You can choose to be who you dream to be or not to be. It all lies in the choice you make every day!

By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

My mom gave me one of those cloth calendars for the kitchen. It took me three hours to sew in a dental appointment.

Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.

If everyone spent as much time o happiness as they did on drama and anger, they'd shine a lot brighter!

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.