Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.

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.

Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.

In all things... .strive for perfection - settle for excellence

If the sky was full of stars and you didn't have one, don’t be sad, maybe the moon will be yours one day.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.

I don't think anyone is closer to the voters in Washington than members of the House of Representatives.

Abortion is 'the great modern sin.

I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.