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

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.

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.

When you follow your heart you allow miraculous possibilities to unfold.

Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.

What sets lion chasers apart isn’t the outcome. It’s the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause.

What you try to bury just ends up burying you.

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.