When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Sometimes in our attempt to give children what we did not have, we forget to give our children what we did have.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

I never go for the stereotypically good-looking guy. Maybe it's unfair, but if I see a good-looking guy, inside I'm like, 'What does he have to offer?'

I don't believe that Hillary Clinton has the stamina.

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

it's a kiss full of promise, of trust and of all that is magic.

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.