When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If we can keep our mind calm and go about our business with undivided attention, we will not only accomplish more but we'll do a better job - and find ourselves more patient, more at peace.

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

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

Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world.