What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

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.

I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have understanding: For it was not my mind to be curious of the high things, but of such as pass by us daily.

So ‘fatal’ only kills you two out of three times these days? That’s good to know.

If we give up freedom for security, we are in danger of losing both.

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

I’ve always been in love with Land Rovers and Range Rovers. I own one and was able to make it a little more exclusive.

When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.

Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.