I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

If you have a longing in your heart to hear a deeper truth, there's a mysterious way in which that truth will find you.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

In God, there is no lack and no recession.

And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same.

We must relinquish the paradigm of men as power with women as support and instead embrace the image of both men and women as powers, with each supporting the other. Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.

Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.

Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.

I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the effort to destroy the Nazi regime militarily was justified military action.

There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will explode in our society if we do not address the huge amount of suffering in our midst.

Living in this world, under the dominance of the ego mind, is difficult. That's the struggle.

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives.

I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.

Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.