Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

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.

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.

What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.

The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

I think in 2012 one of the primary issues that will get a lot of discussion will be comprehensive tax reform.

The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness.