I flourish when I realize I'm already complete.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

...forever isn't long enough to have you in my life.

With a strong spirit, you will survive any situation.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time

I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

I love eating at Sonic with my family in Oklahoma. And no, I'm not kidding.

Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.