When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

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.

Many learn from the pastbut few do something with it. Take Action. Struggles bring strength to strive and succeed.

You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever.

Winter is coming.

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

I don't have any shame.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world.