When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will BE love.

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 will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

Our spirituality lies in wholeness.

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.