"When the storm rips you to pieces, you have to decide how to put yourself back together again."

"Learn to understand your energy and how you create with your energy."

"Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy."

"Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations."

"To live a wonderful life create more, buy less, hug more, scold less, give more, take less, forgive more, worry less and be grateful everyday for life."

"In a sea of trouble your thoughts are your lifeboat."

"In spiritual moments we nearly perceive a grand, divine conspiracy of interconnectedness between us and everything."

"If you can begin to believe in your own beauty, you can then begin to believe in the beauty of others."

"All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion."

"Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations."

"The only end to your pain is through fully consuming it and digesting it, otherwise it will consume you."

"The individual cannot exist outside of the many spheres of the deeply interconnected webs of life."

"By choosing to have a calm response to what seems negative you bring clarity and balance to your message."

"The ultimate form of attraction is to be what you want to attract."

"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."

"Your suffering needs to be respected."

"Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be."

"Silence is more than observation, it informs from non-observation."

"You are likely the greatest obstacle to achieving your own dreams."

"Life wants you to know that people are more important than things."

"As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself."

"When you are constantly waiting and wanting your declaration is that you are NOT."

"Men can never have the true power they were endowed with by creation, until they respect and protect the women and children of the world."

"When you accept fallibility within yourself you become more perfect."

"Without inner-peace and contentment, success will ultimately destroy you."

"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."

"Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you."

"Accept the fullness in life's balance, which demands that there are positive gifts along with adversity."

"The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed."

"Place your allegiance and respect in what is everlasting and real, not in the transitory and false."

"Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally."

"You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you."

"Out of our suffering we emerge. Our struggles are really our only hope."

"Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind."

"Love and respect changes everything."

"No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life."

"Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life."

"We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence."

"Support what is good and spit out what is bad. Get off of your knees and reject the role of slave to the culture of violence."

"The pleasure is there, between your expectations and regrets."

"You teach others how to treat you by how you treat others."

"The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals."

"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

"Your attitudes are slowly shaping you at all times and calling your deepest truths to the surface of your reality."

"When you feel lost turn towards love. Become a seeker of beauty in all things."

"Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person."

"Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level."

"Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go."

"Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice."

"The biggest liar you will ever meet is yourself. It is amazing the lies we tell ourselves because of fear."