Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.

When your son is healthy and happy, you're healthy and happy. And when your son is not healthy, let's say you're unhappy.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.