Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money".

The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker.

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

Do not let the forces of evil take over to make this a Christian America.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.

You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.