In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.

When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire—the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled by desire.

What comes from sorrow, watered by tears, grows something of beauty. A salt garden. And so this I leave behind. A harvest for those who find their way into my life and I into theirs.

I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

Our aim is a democratic peace.

Looking foolish does the spirit good.

I think everyone is very surprised at how matrix has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

Why does man need a meaning to life?

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist.

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.