Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.

-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.

I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

There are no rules that can bind you when you find your other half.