The larger your beloved community, the more you can accomplish in the world.

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.

You can't trust actors.

Greatness comes with discipline.

Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.