I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

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.

Saying good-bye when you know it's for the last time is like no other sadness you will ever experience.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

All the answers to your questions about what your goals can and should be lie within, so does your power to accomplish those goals.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are.

[Queen Elizabeth] is just the granny queen! She's our granny queen who shakes people's hands!

I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.