“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

“Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.”

“Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.”

“When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.”

“You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find withanother, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not changeyou. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when youare looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness orfrustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty aboutsomething by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever itis about you that is making you unhappy.”

“Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”