Your conduct matters a great deal. What’s in your mind matters even more.

Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

Hate is the last refuge of the ignorant. Love is the medicine. Compassion is the gift of the awakened ones.

If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.

No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

The way of loving kindness is what is to be accepted. Love! The benefit is clear. Rage, hate are the way of chaos and darkness - to be rejected.

If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

There is no way to be in cyclic existence without creating the causes of suffering.

In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use.

A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord.

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

A natural adversary is a customer service representative.

[T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.