I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything.

As for me and my house, I have no other refuge than this command of Jesus, 'Only believe' that is my refuge.

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.