Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

Too much involvement with one's feeling [is destructive]. If they have too much self-centered feelings, they get in trouble.

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.