We were birthed with one soul to take care of, and we must take care of it.

When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

Embracing our dark side gives us a new found freedom to be with the darkness in others. For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you.

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.

Notice what happens when you choose to embrace rather than reject each feeling that arises within you today.

Right now, there is a stronger, more vibrant, more inspired version of you that is wanting and waiting to emerge.

Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning.

When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

I was always pretty good at adapting to my situations. My act was never that inside, where it was like, "Okay, they're either going to get this or they're not."

When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.