Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

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 danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....

My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.

I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.