Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only things that derail our efforts are fear and oppression.

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

The search for Jesus is about reconciling loss and tragedy to God and us.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

Chickens are interesting individuals who have as much right not to be cooked and eaten as a dog or a cat or even a human being.

More important than the food pairing is the person with whom you drink the wine.

Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.

The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.

The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening.

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower.

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.