We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

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.

Hard work increases the probability of serendipity.

Life is a dance of nature.

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

Once you go alien, you really do never go back.

Britons put up with, Americans fix, Canadians cope

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.