I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the elimination of poverty.

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.

Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.

In fact, they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant

Why, who would not make her husband a cuckold

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.

Music isn’t just music, it’s therapy.