Knowing that every single day is so filled with potential - you cannot wait for life to give you anything. You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.

Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help.

Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.

Too many books. Too few centuries.

Does it kill them? I don't want to be killing Americans whatsoever, Jeffrey.

Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.

Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.

You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.

I like everything to be washable, myself included.

He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.