Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Why give up?Why give in?

The holiest of all holidays are thoseKept by ourselves in silence and apart

I'm more of a dog person. But I admire cats and their ability to take so much while giving so little.

They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.

Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.

Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

We have the mentality of the hunter. We want to be the most enthusiastic team in the country. That's what we can control