Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.

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.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Good friends are divine instruments.

I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.

The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.

If you leave a good trace behind you, that trace will continue its walk even if you stop!

I'm like a stuffed toy. You've never met me, but if you did, you'd just want to take me home and put me in your child's room.

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.