We must realize that it is best to focus on our oneness, to re emphasize what is the same about each of us rather than dwell on what is different.

I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect.

Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.

Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.