As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed.

I'm not a great pregnant woman.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.