I'd rather identify with a past of infinite growth, than a past which hinders it.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

Making peace with one's truth is to live in one’s own moment, moving passionately forward in joy.

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.

Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

To surrender is not giving up the struggle, but finding peace within the struggle.

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

Who you were is not who you are. Who you are, is what you will be.

The soul is stronger than the ego. It lives to BE, and give. We are of one Light, illuminating ourselves and those whom we love.

To believe in miracles in one thing...to know what miracle you want to manifest right now, and accept it, is another.

Your job won't take care of you when you'll be sailing through loneliness or going though a tragedy in life. Your friends will. Make good friends and stay in touch.

Stop telling God what to do with his dice.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

It's a real stumper to sit around and try to think in your own head, but when you go into somebody else's head that takes the foot off the breaks. You can think in someone else's head.

Got Bin Laden AND interrupted Celebrity Apprentice? Win for Obama all around.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.