When you love someone, the best you can offer is your presence.

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.

I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

One cannot live on anger, my son.

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.

I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.

You cannot even start a small business under the tremendous regulatory burden we have today in America.

Nothing with God can be accidental.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.