One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

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.

And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.

No matter what side of the spectrum you're on, you like to see your team fighting for the principle.

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.

We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Real movement in the Kerry campaign now. His poll numbers are moving, donations are moving, endorsements are moving. The only thing not moving is his hair.

Mel: What was your name again? Rain: Rain. Mel: Oh that's nice. Kind of like bad weather.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.