You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

When you meet a person as good-hearted as a child, don't ever be selfish, just give them your best and you will become great friends.

Don't let the disappointments of today kill tomorrow's blessings, destroy the negative flashes of pessimism, and focus on the mirror of optimism.

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

Right now I am working to polish the shards of my dreams.

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

Friendship is the heaven of life.