When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.

After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity.

People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.

I think there is a tendency for people to become more isolated as they move along a spiritual path. With more development, people get more isolated. Also, as they have more wealth, they get more isolated.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.