By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared.

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.

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?

There is a realm in which miracles are possible and do take place. The door to this realm is the belief in all possibilities and YOU are the key.

Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

When you think about a person or object most of the times while you are awake, it is either obsession or it is love.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.