True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.

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.

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard for me to let go of my ideas as to the way they look.

The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.

If I ever write a book on "How True Is the Bible?" I'll have to start out by saying that archaeology is not the way to find out; that it has very little to say.

Patience is the mother of will.

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.