Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

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.

to hell with literaturewe want something redblooded

I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

I don't think it's a coincidence this happened. God does things for a reason ... It's a good message for back home.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.

Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.