What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

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.

God is looking for sincere men he could send to politics to manage politics for him.

You never know when you're going to die, but maybe something in you does, some cellular consciousness that's aware of the cosmic countdown and starts making plans.

Mother came to New York to keep house for me.

Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming gospel aren't out to save the world. They're out to run it.

That's instinct, you catch and you shoot. I've done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It's what I've practiced.

What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.

Age will flatten a man.