Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

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.

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls

A true friend repays loyalty with loyalty, honesty with honestyand favours with favours.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

Everything constantly changes.