“You can never get enough of what you don’t want.”

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Change your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of love, harmony, kindness, peace, and joy, and you’ll attract more of the same.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.

There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.