In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.

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.

To live an effective life, you have to turn your back on the things of the world

It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

Don't get mad. Get everything. - (on divorce).

There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.