To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

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.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

White clouds, blue sky.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

Take it in what sense thou wilt.