My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both.

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.

Leaders do not die with their music on their tongues unsung. They provide services that make them unleash their God-given potentials!

There’s no more perfect way to fall asleep then having my arms wrapped around her while I breathe in her peaches and cream scent that is mixed with the scent of us and sweat.

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled.

Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.

I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.