Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books.

Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ensure fair competition and fair treatment of our workers.

I think that it's important to have good people around you, like my friends.

You have to do what you believe in.

Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.

Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.

Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams

The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.

There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.