Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.

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.

Stop focusing so much on what is on the outside and start getting to know yourself better on the inside. Your true purpose in life lies in your inner positive voices.

What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life.

Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.