If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

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.

It's amazing how easy the truth is to accept...No matter how strange.

Those that know, do not need explanations, and those that do not, would not understand any explanations.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

The Republicans know very well how to lose, and they know how to be very civil in defeat.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write