To be is not a choice, but the way you feel about it certainly is.

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.

There is no higher authority.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

Any parent that relies on any law to help him parent is an idiot.

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.