Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.

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.

I vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.

If we start creating our own maps, our own world, our own vision, then there's no way for the cultural tyrants to program us. And, that's why they're pushing so hard to get more outrageous.

For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.

Our minds are the most mysterious things about us.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

I think that the achievements of Catholicism on race are very, very impressive.

Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.