Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.

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.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

Kiddo, you and me don't do so well in situations we can't control.''Don't think I care for that.

I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

Give me an authentic woman, and I'm happy.

Not when the sense is dim, But now from the heart of joy, I would remember Him: Take the thanks of a boy.

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.