Gratitude feels so good because it is the state of mind closest to your natural state in which you were born to live.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.

The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it.

Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

An answer to a question no one asked is a wasted answer.

Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.

The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that's what life is.

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.

Tools of empowerment - heartset and mindset.

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

Every time someone opens up to me, it just feels like a gift they're giving me, because it's a chance to experience another human being.

Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.