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

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.

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.

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.

And to think of all the colors in the world, blood chose to be red.

What is birthday, but a celebration of death.

I can only run as fast as the rate of my breath.

I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on 'Pi' and 'Requiem'. Which is my cameraman, and my composer, and my producer. We've all worked together for a number of films.

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

Western clothes are our everyday wardrobe. But I do not think that it makes much of a difference anymore whether you are Japanese or American or European.

I've chosen never to go on welfare. I feel as though it is my responsibility to do what I can to provide for my children.

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.