I love imperfections.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

I already am a product.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

What we think, we become.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

This is not a bad life.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Peace begins with a smile.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.