Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

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.

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.

There's no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.

It never really crossed my mind that I was ever going to win a major. I always said that if you win a major, that's fine. If you don't, you tried your best.

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.