By serving others you automatically serve yourself.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
Some grin and bear it - others smile and do it.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Sow a thought and reap a deed, Sow a deed and reap a habit, Sow a habit and reap a character, Sow a character and reap a destiny.
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
When you open your eyes in the morning, sit for a moment and appreciate the gift of a new day, create a peaceful thought and enjoy some moments of silence throughout the whole day.
