A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.

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.

In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.

Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.

Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.