It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

Passion is not a quality that is foreign to you. It is not a characteristic that some people are born with and some must do without. To be passionate is as natural to you as breathing, as natural as being alive. It is the source of who you are.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.

No one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.