I can transform my entire life. The universe is an unbroken, continuous fabric within which I can create and intend my destiny.

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.

Remember always where the dreaming ends and the being begins. Draw a line for everything you care about and then step over it.

I have nothing to lose in life.

Being snappy is a symptom of an argument we forgot to have some way back.

Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not.

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.