"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
"To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual."
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"
"In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?"
"Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame."