The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

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.

Service introduces you to the leadership throne. Service to mankind is the vision on which leadership is mounted. You serve and in your service, you train more leaders by becoming an example!

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

Of course drugs were fun.

If politicians all told the truth, we'd be out of business.

Be yourself and you can be anything.

This Reese's Chevrolet was downright awesome.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.