Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

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.

Corporate media rarely reports the fact that police internal affairs uphold hardly any complaints from the masses.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.

In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.

Pity is something only weakness wants.

The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.