To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

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.

The walls of hell are coated with arrogance, and the floor is covered with pride.

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life.

When you guarantee increase, you create attention for yourself

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.

I had written a script called "Freed," which I had wanted to direct.

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.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.