To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Appreciating others can be the catalyst that unleashes their greatness.

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.

We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.

If I had a billion dollars I would...oh wait...already do.