The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

If you want wise lessons, ask wise questions. The type of questions you often ask tells the kind of person you are.

Value system also comes from the mass media of the land.

For when ideas flutter in haze, we collaborate without notice and collect them as butterflies only to set them free into the world.

I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.

Reverence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically powered to be gentle with Life or to love Life.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.

Exegesis, exegesis, and yet more exegesis!