We're always given the message that our potential is so limited, which is so sad. Actually, our potential is infinite.

Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.

One thing in the Buddhadharma is that we are not our body, we are not our gender.

I don't think I've changed anything, but I hope that by my talks I have encouraged people in their practice. That's as much as any of us can do.

If you just follow your inner calling, then you just go ahead.

It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

You can still practice to be a better and kinder and happier person. That's perfectly possible.