“Wishing is good for us. Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations All drive us forward, Impel us to make things happen. They also tell us a lot about ourselves.”

I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.

Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures – as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part.

Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.

Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

Happiness need not be analyzed.

A still tongue keeps a wise head.

A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.

Our wishes come straight from our core, And they are loaded with vital information About who we are and who we can become. Keeping track of our wishes Helps us tap into the energy That propels us to go after our happiness.

Find your center and stay there.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

Right underneath your thoughts and negative emotions exists an ocean of love. You have but to quiet the mind to experience it.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can’t say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.

Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.

With maturity comes the wish to economize – to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.