Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

The road to success is always under construction.

I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!

If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.

It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.

A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.

One man with courage is a majority.

If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.