The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.

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.

God has from the beginning, placed in us all the necessary gifts, abilities and talents to have success

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

Step 1, you find a girl to love. Step 2, she falls in love with you. Step 3, you kiss and hold her tightly.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

We may surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers.

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy.