We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again.

Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.

Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.

Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.

You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back.

Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.

Every room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop.

A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.

There is no problem a library card can't solve.

Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.

The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

[Donald Trump] campaigned on repealing Obamacare.

God specializes in giving people a fresh start.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.