Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Either way, Grayson found it ironic how such dissimilar circumstances, colleges, and mental hospitals, had led to the same awful apartment.

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

If you're lucky, you don't think in a straight line.

Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.