I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

I have little bones.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

How young can you die of old age?

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.