Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Treat yourself at least as well as you treat other people.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.

All of us are crazy in one or another way.

Television deprives children of their imaginations.

Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.

You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.

If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.

I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

I thought it was interesting when [Bill Clinton] said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.