The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

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.

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.

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.

Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.

We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

What is life but playing with time?

Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

Don’t change the channel when Rohit Sharma walks out to bat, because by the time you change it back, he‘d be long gone!!

My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.