There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define.

Eliminate blame, guilt, and worry from your diet and watch your health improve.

If you are never the cause of someone’s sadness, you will never have difficulties finding happiness.

Look at your own povertywelcome itcherish itdon’t be afraidshare your deathbecause thus you will share your love and your life

You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.

Whatever you expect, you will get. So expect success, not regret.

Think outside the square. Think for yourself don’t just follow the herd. Think multidisciplinary! Problems by definition, cross many academic disciplines.

Remember that knowledge alone is not power. Only knowledge plus action is power.

If you’re not at the front, you’re not in the race.

We came to this world with nothing but love and blessing. The purpose of our life is to be happy by loving and serving.

I’ve attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I’ve wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too...

Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted.”This was my mantra when I published my first book in 1990, and still holds true. When we focus on the song of our soul...

Give a poet a pen

It doesn’t matter who we are or where we’ve been, God sent His Son for us – that’s the beauty of the Gospel.

Without yoga, my breast cancer experience would have been much more difficult. The trust, courage and strength one develops through the practice of yoga will set anyone up to face life’s most challenging experiences. I’ve...

Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency; you become irrelevant in each other’s lives. We call this phenomenon ‘growing apart’.

In our lives, we need some hope to be able to proceed to the next ladder, without it, we’re failures.

Give yourself without expecting any return.

We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind

Listening to our kids with an open heart & mind is the strongest way to build a relationship with them – especially when they’re wrong.

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.

I think that love is like candy.””I don’t like candy either,” I say. He smiles at me and shakes his head. “I think anyone who says they don’t like candy just hasn’t found the right...

The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinkingof sitting out on the sand to watchthe moon rise. Full tonight.So we goand the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder,...

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.

my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life… 2 things you need… learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.

As long as hope is alive happiness will be there.

Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.

We struggle and push and plant seeds deep underground, and it doesn’t look like much for a while. But then someone comes along and listens to your song or sees your painting or reads your...

Neither pathway is correct.

The road of life’s twists and turns give wisdom; reading books and schooling give you knowledge.

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have...

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.

Don’t wait until your energy runs out before you take a much needed step back to assess the situation.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

Why do we mortals wonder if it is through ‘human chaos’ or through ‘divine perfection’ when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the result the same? Is the...

God has created you, not your future.

Knowledge is not the power; it is the potential power. Willing is not the action, but potential action.

Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

If you’re not far enough along to be able to decide, you’re not ready.

Happiness depends on our thoughts and actions, not on wealth, splendor, or external conditions.

Success won’t just come to you. It has to be met at least halfway.

So sad is this that nigh to all are ignorant to the pain and death caused by the hands of evil.

A borrower who doesn’t returns is a beggar.

Be courageous, but humble,passionate, but simple,have beliefs, but be flexible.

E atat de dificil sa fii si sensibila, si mandra. Ca sa nu suferi trebuie sa fii sau una, sau alta. Nu, in orice caz, si una, si alta.

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.