We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.
There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely or whether we live them in ignorance. And this is everything.
The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains one's body?
It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book.
If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.
The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
