Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

The victory is not only the pathway of celebration but also to take the greater degree of responsibility for those who were victimised.

She's a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.

Adversity does not redefined but reestablished God's plan for our lives.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Take spring when it comes and rejoice. Take happiness when it comes and rejoice. Take love when it comes and rejoice.

I decided to make news, not give it.

There has been studies looking at like musical talent and it shows that there is actually a really large genetic component involved.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise.