As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

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.

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

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.

Logically, you should go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a good degree, go into the workplace, then work hard and be happy. The only problem is that happiness isn't logical.

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Anyone serious about playing indoor, you should play outdoor.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.