Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.