The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

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.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

Believe in yourself, refuse to waiver! Once you control your mind, you control your DESTINY here on earth.

i'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed or worse expelled

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.

they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.

Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.