If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

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.

Many stories begin with a dream, but it is rare when the dream is the story itself.

When one needs an answer to life's greatest questions, look towards either Chaos or Nothingness.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future.

I also think that there's something about the graphic, political nature of such attacks, mixed with the fact that it all seems completely random to the victims.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don't like really buff guys.

The "little theme" from Vinteuil, heard by Swann as emblematic of his love for Odette, remains a point of reference for him, as the character of that love changes and as the love eventually fades.

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.