No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

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.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.

People are still tied to their hoods, and it's usually not the artist, it's usually the friends and instigators who get it popping.

Even when I think about the fact that energy can become matter and matter can become energy, I have a very strong feeling that there's something afterward.

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

It's just business nothing personal.

The only dynasty I like is the Duck Dynasty.