I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.
Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy.
We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.
This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.
Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.
Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.
Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.
People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.
I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.