Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

If you can manage your thoughts and mind, and choose your battles wisely, you can manage your life.

I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .

Lord, give me Scotland or I die!

Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.