We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.

What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

Don't dress for fashion, dress for yourself

It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.