Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes

Our intention creates our reality.

If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

The question must be asked: have we been the beneficiaries or the victims of our education?

The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

You're not a woman," he said finally. "You're the Grim Reaper with red hair!

When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.