I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‚Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?‘ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

I can be a cruel person.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

There is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

You are victors, not victims!

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.