Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.

The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.

The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.

You are drained by foolish actions and others.

I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.