Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

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.

People are kinder to the unborn than they are to the women themselves, and soon I had my ticket.

Scientism and godism are superstitions, one blindly believes in what's visible, the other blindly believes in what's invisible.

God gives us time. And who has time for God?

How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?

Call school, tell them I'm lovesick.

Never having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

I'm not good at keeping secrets. If I'm entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I'm a good friend, but I don't like having secrets, it makes me nervous.

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.