Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

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.

A truly radical resolution would be to embrace existence just as it is, as the only thing that matters, to proclaim that the world itself is heaven, made for our total enjoyment and fulfillment...

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.