You'll never get anywhere unless you're independent of the good and bad opinion of others. Be fearless.

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.

A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.

Nothing worldly will ever become the Self (the Soul). The Self [the Soul] will never become worldly. Both are separate things.

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.

That is a pretty big deal from a commitment standpoint.

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

I can never find the right bras.

I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.

Well I've had a happy life.