Each moment is a moment of choice and your commitments keep you true to yourself, choice by choice.

Being willing makes you able.

Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts.

If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.

You don't have to earn or deserve love. You are love. Loving is never about how others treat you. It is always about how you are treating yourself.

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.

Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.

Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process.

To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water.

We must serve the Lord, our God with all our heart, with all our soul and in everything be devoted to Him

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

Be patient. Always be kind. Stand in the middle of the river. Be prepared. It [success] will all come. Don't be in such a rush.

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.