I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.

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.

If you want to be somebody else, change your mind.

People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor.

Without Christ Jesus, I am nothing.

I haven't been to too many cons since Star Wars, and I don't think it's really going to change until it comes out.

Didacticism is the death of art.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.