If all you did was tell a lamppost your goals for each day, they would still be far more likely to happen.

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.

The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life.

The universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle... when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it.

If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sales manager of a napkin factor. Why is my daughter in space?

If free will means to do what you want, then it does not exist. Many of its staunchest proponents have met the wheel of fate without opposing it

I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.

I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand the impact that Pope John Paul II had on people.

Just write, if you open the gate it gets better and better.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.

The second coming was an event in the spiritual, and not in the natural world.

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

Generosity is only benevolence in practice.