When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.

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.

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

He never looked back, the day he realized the power of presentations.

My dream: to be able to drive a virus-powered car.

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

I was devastated when 'Days' let me go and couldn't help but feel it was my fault. What did I do wrong? What happened? It sucks. You always think it's your fault.

[Donald] Trump met with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, who has in the past compared Trump's rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.