If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

It's good to vandalize one's own work.

If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

I care for riches, to make gifts.

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but dont rise to the level of nuclear.

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.