If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.

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.

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

The change most needed in our lives isn't change in our situations and relationships but in us. The thing God is most intent on rescuing us from is ourselves.

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.