Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

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.

You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

Sorry if we can't all be unoriginal but I have a mold to break.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.