Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

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.

Happiness is what happens when your thoughts and beliefs are constantly working in your favor.

There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths and the lesser ones who can only give you themselves.

Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to "prove their love" like a moose needs a hat rack.

The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life.

there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

Hell hath no fury like a Democrat scorned.

[Management] has authority only as long as it performs.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.