Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

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

In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.

If you rise with a positive attitude - because everything is possible, everything is doable - if you have that level of confidence, you exude it. It actually inspires the people around you.

I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.

Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.