“One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.”

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or ‘nowness:’ but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.

I have the courage of my convictions.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.