Our hearts and souls are always the departing point for all thought, feeling and action.
The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.
To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.
All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.
If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times. . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
I can't see any point to hanging around a Burger King all day, no matter how much money you make. . . . . I'll tell you why. Your life would depend on the random desires of people who wanted a hamburger. So you can just forget about Burger King.
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.