There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

If we grow in faith, we shall never seize to bear fresh fruit.

But I can't force everything into the arrangement I'd like. I can't use denial to make everything simple.

There are fit men everywhere, so I'm working my way through them, one at a time!

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

Epigrams delight us into wisdom.

Every wave is new until it breaks.

I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.