I create my success from within

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.

Never grow weary of doing good.

Courageous people run toward the problem rather than away from it.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.