“My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.”

I say to this generation: “We must encourage these kids.” Tell them they are wonderful and capable. Be their cheerleader.

There are those who need walks in nature or they feel depressed. Your linchpin is the pin that makes the wheel go. If you lose it, the wheel falls apart.

Maybe your path is completely different from what you imagined.

More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to mindfulness, to yoga. These have become mainstream in the West because there is a hunger.

She helped me wake up to the fact that I had a source of creativity that was my true creative nature and when I embraced it and asked for this presence in my life.

In my own life, there were many things that didn’t happen for me in the outside world, but that gave me an opportunity to look inside to find my spirit, my courage, my confidence and ultimately, to find my heart.

Contemplating the immensity of our cosmos can make you feel very small and insignificant. But think about it.

There is division with people in our lives, as well as political division and religious division.

I felt as if the dam of the Niagra Falls had burst and all sorts of wonderful things started to happen when I found my voice.

How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.

We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

I urge people to be a scientist about what they want and ask themselves why they want it so badly.

I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected.

We are not alone and we all have ample creativity within us if we just trust it.

Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. … Why does he get so much publicity? Because he’s white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.

One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that’s how I perceived everything.

We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds … It’s still the greatest move I’ve ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.