If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

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.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?.

Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

I know all the new phrases: 'cowabunga,' 'radical,' cat's pajamas,' 'duh,' and 'hey, homie don't play that.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.