To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

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.

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

Ever Since I Can Remember, I Have Always Been a Huge Advocate for Women and Children.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Be yourself, be who you can be.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.