Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.

We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.

The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own.

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether I keep up with Tom Jones or anybody else; what is important is to keep up with myself by making my today a little better than my yesterday.

Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.