A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

Independence is like a flower that nurtures itself in the light of another.

Let My worship be in theheart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasureare My rituals.

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

I've been successful in different areas, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than my oldest son, Zaire, and my second son, Zion, saying the kind word of 'Dad.'

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble.

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