If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

Most people are not valued. Very few people have someone who believes in them. Very few have others love them unconditionally. Do these things intentionally every day.

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

I have a fantasy that might be fun. Why don't we try it?

You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.