Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.