You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

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.

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

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.

It's not your job to judge or to decide if someone deserves something. It's your job to lift the fallen and comfort the broken.

The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

I don't want you to love me, If you don't wanna love me for me.

Disco is just jitterbug.

The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.

We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow.

They're the only ones brave enough to give me these opportunities [on being offered a soundtrack!]

Donald Trump's mother, who said, Donnie! Stop playing Monopoly and get in that barber's chair! Never got a dinner!

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.