Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Life must be lived in speed and focus

Reading promotes confident.

The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part, Is not more fondly dear.

We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night.

Adversity in life teaches you.

I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.