I have lost my smile, but don't worry. The dandelion has it.

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.

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole

If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I'm a fool, which you've probably worked out by now.

And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.

Do you require yourself to remember? In order to live as you can and should, you first must remember who you are and what you’ve been given.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled.