When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go.

Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

Your attitude is everything, and it determines how you experience every aspect of your life

I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.

I love polarizing people.

Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.

Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.