Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

We cannot heal what we cannot feel.

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.

God's love and His gift of salvation are given to you by God’s grace—not earned by your works.

When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.

Harry closed his eyes. He never wanted to open them again. His heart sent this message to his molecules: "For reasons obvious to all of us, this galaxy is dissolved!

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.