“Be willing to redefine yourself every day.”

We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

In every failure lies the seeds of success.

Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.

You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive.

People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.

First, say to yourself, ‘I’m totally independent of the good or bad opinions of others.’ Second: ‘I’m beneath no one.’ Third: ‘I’m fearless in the face of any and all challenges.’

The Higher Self is whispering to you softly in the silence between your thoughts.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that’s the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.