If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.

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.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

At some point in the journey of being in it for yourself, you realize you need other people. Any good frontier story, in some respect, is about that.

I love being a portraitist.

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.