You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Real living is living for others.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Men are what their mothers made them.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.