You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.

To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.

As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a warrior.