You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable.

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.

Do close your mouth. You look like a cow that's being artificially inseminated.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

But there's a twist. There's always a twist.

The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.

I'm sure I could fall in love with a Democrat as easily as a Republican. Some things transcend politics.

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.

Water flows uphill towards money.

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.