This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

Violet will carry he mark of Merlin's bloodline and she'll be able to wake The Lady from her slumber.

Take one minute every day and think hard about your life. You will always change for the best.

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

I don't write comedy. I write drama that's funny.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

Racing is the fun part; it's the reward of all the hard work.

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

... I think we grieve forever, but that goes for love too, fortunately for us all.

There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.

People want you to be ordinary.