In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

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.

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

… and now and then we could look up and give each other a thought, because I think he could have beautiful thoughts, and we could just let each other be less lonely in our loneliness.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

I loved Frank [O'Connor], he was wonderful...just don't get on his bad side. I don't think I would have wanted to marry him, but I probably should have since I married idiots anyway.

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

Acting is about listening, and that's something that took me awhile. You almost don't have to learn your lines, if you listen to what they're saying and move it along.

Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of 'forced' saving.

I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.