We learn from conflicts only when we are willing to do so.

Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

Think before you act. Reason before you react.

Do you know what it's like to be blessed with someone so special, to love them so much it hurts, and then have them taken from you forever?

Ambition is what gives birth to imagination and then imagination directs the bearing towards its pursuit.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

I don't drink no whiskey but I'm a fool about my home made wine. I stays around Dallas cause I makes it there all the time

I love soccer; I want to be on the field.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

I became a Catholic against my will.

I'm everything free. I'm gluten-free. I'm dairy-free. I'm sugar-free. Sometimes I'm yeast-free which really means I eat paper.