Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.

The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

I've never been good at sharing my toys.

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.

Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.

Here we don't pray for the weak, we prey on the weak.

A simple life freely given in love can transcend the boundaries of place and time, stretching across oceans and extending beyond continents and decades.

Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds.

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Nothing ever turns out the way we expect, good or bad.

Men can see the greatest miracles and miss the glory of God. What generation was ever favored with miracles as Jesus' generations was? Yet that generation crucified the Son of God!

And simple truth miscalled simplicity