Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

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.

It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot.

The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and look deep within their own hearts.

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.

For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.

The eyes are the window to where the soul is supposed to be.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air