The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go.

Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn't wash my Y-fronts for a month.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

Has anyone asked Donald Trump recently like how exactly does his current position differ from [Marco] Rubio's or even Jeb Bush's?

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.