Just like your body naturally responds positively to some foods, your mind naturally responds positively to some thoughts.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

The strongest bonds are of the heart.

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

Independence is happiness.

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.