You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn't have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.

Live fully each day to the full . . .

Hate poisons your life.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

I am daily making myself what I am.

A possession can't make you happy.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

Acceptance is the sense of belonging.

The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Only that which is well done is quickly done.

Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

I think this is what real love is like.. Wanting to be together as they grow older.

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.