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.

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."

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.

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

Two seconds are a thousand years.

I have profound respect for Sacha Baron Cohen, but Borat is not a particularly comfortable movie for me to sit through.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

Taking things lightly must lead to big difficulties.

People give me a better understanding on things that I said, or a different way to look at it.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.