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

Perhaps they are chasing an illusory dream. But if you want to learn, to expand, to be of service, you will find a way.

The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.

When I found those things, I felt liberated. I found resilience of spirit, realized I had much to offer and gained abundance.

No matter who you are, you have a giant self.

It’s a challenge that we also feel more than any other time because it’s in the news and social media. It’s in our families.

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.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

There’s no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.

The stage is near and dear to me.

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work.

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.