The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

Germans try to categorize films: in a comedy, you just laugh and in a drama, you're not allowed to laugh. I don't believe in that, sometimes we laugh and cry in the same hour.

There's a guy out there who will want to tell everyone that he is your boyfriend. Quit goofing around and go find him.

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on ... you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.

People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.

If you don't go, you'll never know.

I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.