Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

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.

I wonder who else in the world was having such an exquisite dawn.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

We all look for lost time.

When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.

Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.