Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth.

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.

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Love isn't making others into the people we imagine they should be. It's about letting people be themselves

When someone steals your heart not even the law can help you.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

You see him coming in with an 0-2 record and a 5 ERA and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.