The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.

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.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

We are what we are at this moment and no more.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

No one can move without some leadership.

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.

Letting go of the cozy stories you've been carrying around is devastating. But there's more room for new stuff after you do it.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.