The most common act of violence is the relentless mental violence we perpetrate upon ourselves with nothing other than our thoughts.

Anger is energy: If you hold on to it, it’ll infect you. But if you channel it into something positive — great things are possible.

Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.

You’ll never truly know how strong your spiritual practice is until you’re faced with your own mortality. Until you’re faced with an incurable disease, and you realize that the greater battle is not one of body, but the one in your mind.

Stoicism is Buddhism without the dogma.