All experiences are either positive for your brain or negative. If you maximize the positive ones, you are shaping the brain you want to being you the world you want.

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.

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.

So open questions to understand. Closed questions to confirm and gain commitment.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

Everyone is dividing based on demographic categories.

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

I'm not sure, if I were President Clinton, I wouldn't want to be pardoned for something that I believed that I didn't do.

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.