What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.

In essence the journey to wisdom is a study of self, The conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious self.

You are never too old to become younger!

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.

Thanksgiving is the most complicated meal you can think of. Every night, dinner is just pasta. It's just different shapes of pasta.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.