“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts – it gives you what you demand with your actions.

Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing…changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.

Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

Don’t give up! It’s not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.

I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.

Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.

Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.

At all times, Dare to be!

Your opinion is not my reality.

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.

I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

I think one of the biggest things that’s changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We’re getting closer and closer to an artist performance.

They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

It occurred to me that I just didn’t see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so… cannibalistic to me. And so, I’m a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]