Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

Enlightenment is coming out from the fear mode, victim mode and guilt mode of living to the mode of empowerment.

Ignore what other people think. Most people aren't even paying attention to you.

I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.