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.

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.

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.

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

Choices are made before explanations, whether or not we care to know it.

These kisses hurt--not from roughness, but because she could feel all his pain.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

I am a Pit Bull mixed with a Great Dane, mixed with a Rottweiler, mixed with a Bull Terrier, mixed with everything. That's what kind of dog I am.

I'm working hard every day to attain all of my goals. Winning the Super Bowl is obviously at the top of that list.

If I knew where good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

There is no community service in Seinfeld. But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization.