In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

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.

Samkit’ (right belief) means knowing the Soul (self).

I don't know who Little Richard is.

Leave every environment you go into better than you found it.

I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good. - T-SHIRT

I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress.