We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

I will pursue the dream, no matter how long it takes to fulfil it.

That's God's will - Lunatic

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.