There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

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.

Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

Ah, mate. My soul loves yours. It does. But this lifetime, my body won’t get on board.

...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.

In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.

I have Margaery Tyrell's - I didn't take it, I was given it - but yes, David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] gave me Margaery Tyrell's wedding crown. So that is sitting on my bookshelf.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.