Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.

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.

Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?

She remembered the conversation in the Library, as forgetting was the last thing a fully-trained Librarian should do. Memories were as important as books, and almost as important as proper indexing.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."

When there is no offense I make no defense.

Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

Freedom is the silence of the law.

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.