The miracle is to walk on the earth.

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.

When you can actually measure your day by how much time is converted into products, then you are a great force on the earth.

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.

Magnus reached out to touch Alec, but Alec moved away. Magnus' hand fall to himself.

I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.