The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Let your innocence show as brilliant as your dreams because only then can you discover the true beauty of love.

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

That which is aware of sadness is not sad. That which is aware of fear is not fearful. The moment I am lost in thought, however, I'm as confused as anyone else.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.