...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy-Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic.

Im not interested in the limelight.

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.