Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

We gain freedom when we learn to overcome fears.

You fault me for having standards?' Sebastian countered icily.'Not at all. I fault you for having two sets of them.'~ Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent & Cam Rohan.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

I think there are a lot of older people who are moving through life the right way, and they just don't know it.

We begin by loving and accepting ourselves.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.