The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.

You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

God is in you as the ocean is in the wave.

There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts.

We can become bitter or better as a result of our experiences.

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

Infinite Mind will put ideas into your mind, words into your mouth, creativity into your hands, boundless opportunity before you, and guiding light on your way.

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.

Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.

My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.

When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure.

I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

Every experience, waking or dream, has a lesson or message to impart to us.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.