Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

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.

Declan and

they have seen the likes of you before, they may be intrigued by the looks of you, but they know that you-like everyone else-will leave them in the end.

I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost everything that could make it a blessing.

The things that frighten us most are those that remind us of our fragile existence

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

I would like to be invisible because I'd love to go into people's houses and see their interior decorating.

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

We're all equals as men, except I'm slightly more equal because I'm still alive and you're dead.

Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.