While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?

Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.

You are wherever your thoughts are, make sure your thoughts are where you want to be.

Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.

Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give.

Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.

The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.

Seek the good in everyone, and reveal it, bring it forth.

It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.

Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

Do one thing everyday that scares you... Taking risks takes practice.

I was always loud and obnoxious and giggly and funny.

I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

Witness state is not a mental state, it is a state of a spiritual ascent where you become a witness. Best way to practice witness state is not to criticize anyone.

And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.