The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.

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.

Work on." Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.

The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. Those seconds are critical.

The whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

The objective is not just to save the crew or just to get the ship up, but the superobjective is to get back home to the family and protect the family.

If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.