The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.

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.

All that God is, will supply your need.

I feel like I got my first real taste of Caribbean and Cuban culture while I was there. I have quite a sizeable Cuban vinyl collection from Miami thrift stores.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.

I was born 10 years old.

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.

Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes.

Success doesn't stop when you get there

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.