Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination.

Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true

[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.

If you don't have a plan, you can end up doing some interesting things.

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.

I've always been into improvisation.