Our own life has to be our message.

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.

Art is an other door to IMAGINATION. And without imagination nothing is possible.

Always be truthful. When you lie to others, you are really lying to yourself.

if a make up, is a fake face, than why dress to impress?

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.