If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

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.

Church words are easy to say, but they're not so easy to live by.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

'To worship or not to worship' has never been the question for all of God's created beings are inherently worshipers...it is more consistently a question of who we will worship.

I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'