Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

I believe the leader's ultimate job is to spread hope.

I try to do things the right way.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears?

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.