Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.

When love fills your life all limitations are gone. The medicine this sick world needs so badly is love.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Live according to your highest light and more light will be given.

Give everyone room to mess up so that when they do you won't be disappointed and if they don't you'll be impressed.

Let everyday be an inch closer to worthwhile and an inch away from meaningless.

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

Always let your reach exceed your grasp.

There are other ways I think of myself as spoiling myself ... I ... get a massage once a week. Other people can, I didn't used to, and I can now.