What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.

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.

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

There is no clear-cut distinction between example and theory

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.