When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

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.

Conflicts need to be resolved at the earliest.

Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere.

I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry.

The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.

Even though I have so many things to figure out, I'm very much at peace. I don't feel like I'm closing the chapter on this phase of life - I feel like I'm closing the book and starting a new one.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Let love simply bloom... and it is unstoppable.