And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.

The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life.

The universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle... when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it.

If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

It's all about the people. It's all for the people. It's all to the people. That's our ultimate goal.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

My savage indignation toward injustice is proportionate to my profoundly reverent connection with beauty.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more.

We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes