Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

To completely understand me you must first accept that I am not you.

The future is in the skies.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”(Analects 4.16)

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.

Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.

Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.

That morning, she had found an envelope stuffed into her locker. It was from the Mercer Hotel, and held a plastic door key for their suite. "See you there tonight," Oliver had written. "Chomp! Chomp!

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.