Every time one person becomes peaceful in their own life, it changes the world.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering.

Fear attracts the darkness. When you have no fear, the darkness fears you.

At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.'

I, who called love my hope for love.

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.