Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

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.

Photography is my other kind of music.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Today, many people are coming to America from very unstable situations. A hundred years ago, people came to America because they wanted to be Americans.

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

I will believe in the 500-channel world only when I see it.

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.