Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

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.

I don't think I am particularly funny. In fact, I know I'm not.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

In your daytime life you have to be more strict.

I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.

When we all help each other out, when we stand together, we are stronger together.

Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.

I've borrowed tons of jewelry. Most people [in Hollywood] do. But it's your responsibility to keep track of it.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

I have the necessary lack of tact.