Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves.

We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

Everyday brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.

May I be at peace. May I awaken to the light of my own true nature. May I be healed and may I be the source of healing for others.

The question is not whether we will barbecue, but how we will barbecue.

Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.

The question is not if we are going to die or not, but how are we going to live.

Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a better place. Service is indeed the gift that keeps on giving.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

To dream is to desire.

If you manage yourself, you control the flow of your time to the right direction. It takes self-discipline to be at the center of control for your own time.

What do you do if you've got everything?There's only one thing you can do. More.

Cornered mothers pray for strange things.

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all).

Savage is he who saves himself.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.