Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

You can leave your place you are sitting at without leaving that place either by playing music or by listening to music! Music is a migration to the unknown!

He has got no good red blood in his body, " said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses, " said Mrs. Cadwallader.

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.

I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.

Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!