Try your best not to get distracted from your goal. Let everything you do be your way of getting closer to your enlightenment; never take a vacation from spiritual practice.

All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

Live with the anticipation that something incredible might happen at any time.

We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.

Don't wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.

The way you treat others determines the way others treat you; the way others treat you determines the way you see yourself; the way you see yourself determines who you are.

We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don't like in the world, we must start by changing what we don't like about ourselves.

Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.

Money is not the first step to becoming a great achiever. Your ideas determine the cost you will need to pay. So if you have no ideas, you can't know the amount you will need!

An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.

They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living.

Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is

Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.