The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

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

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.