Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.

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.

Special Post-Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Eating Crow" This year, it just tastes like Seahawk.

When I write I face my demons, and defeat them.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.

As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken