We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

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.

When there is a challenge to be met, you can be sure someone will rise to it. When there is a job to be done, someone will do it and get the deserved praise for it. Will that person be you?

The health of democracy, not its hate, is its best propaganda.

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car

A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.