As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink.

It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

One must love a poet on its own terms.

Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.

I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will last it's time, whatever time that is.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.