Fear is always the result of an unquestioned past imagined as a future.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

Truth be told, I liked that blurriness. That line where reality and fiction jutted up against each other.

Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.

It's easy enough to smile at a man if you want to capture his attention, but once you realize he's not really looking at you, that perhaps he never really saw you, smiling becomes much more difficult

As I reflect on all my friends and colleagues in my life on this special occasion... Mother is only half the word that immediately comes to mind.

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop