By observing your judging mind, you can avoid automatically buying into these negative judgments...This transforms your experience of stress by taking the terror and panic out of it.

When outcomes are uncertain, most of us spend a great deal of energy ruminating, worrying, and second-guessing ourselves. Not only is this a waste of time, but it makes us less likely to succeed

Replace fear of your own inner experience with a curious, gentle, welcoming attitude—free of judgment, self-blame, and aversion.

The skill of mindfulness allows you to remain grounded in the present moment even when you face difficult stressors, so that your stressful feelings feel more manageable..

Positive emotions and mental states may make people more resilient to stress, like sturdy tree branches that bend but don’t break when battered by a storm

Solitude helps you to discover that you can walk through life all by yourself and that you don’t need to be dependent on anything.

Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.

I give no more paroles to British officers.

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.