Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

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.

Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.

You have the ability, right now, to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

Culture is worth a little risk.

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

After youve been married quite a few years, you learn to take orders; it just comes easy.

You can't make an egg without frying an egg