Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

Nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition

We have to reserve the right to bomb the niggers.

Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

Tiffany and I are great friends, and I appreciate all that she is doing for me now. But she is not you. I still love you, Nikki. And you can’t control or alter true love.

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

The key to successfully working with each other is that they respect each other and their abilities.