If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively. 

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

Someone else’s action should not determine your response.

Thinking of ourselves as somehow special isolates us.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Be compassionate, not just to your friends but to everyone.

An open heart is an open mind.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us.

Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. And be kinder than is necessary.

If we are to create a more peaceful world, made up of peaceful individuals, we need a greater concern for others — altruism. That gives inner strength, self-confidence.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

Be the change you wish to be

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

I soon learned to scent out what was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.