By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

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.

There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

The definition of a relationship is like a shower. You walk in when it is cold, and comes out when it is too hot.

Deed done is well begun.

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.