If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

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.

The love within them shone as brightly as the lighthouse beam on the darkest, stormiest night. It broke through her confusion and heartache and filled her with a warm glow.

There was as much joy in surrendering free will as exercising it.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

The only things we have to worry about are really stupid things.

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?

My job has always been to not only make my character look like a badass but to also make the actor I am fighting opposite to be the character they need to be too.