Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Education is the mother of leadership.
Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
I'm very connected to my own family, and maybe I like to explore the feelings that come up in families. I'm fortunate that my parents taught me to look further into why I might feel a certain way; it was normal to expose things.
Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.