When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

You can no longer hide from me. I am your soul ache come to guide you home.

Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

You are a vampire. That's big news in my world. I don't generally date the living dead. What sort of dead do you usually date?

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.