Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

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

Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

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

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

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

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

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

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.