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

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

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.

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

Movement is the essence of life.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and they're moving in a very constrained world.

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

I'm a big believer in education, period.

I'm not looking for Miss Right, right now. I'm just sort of working on becoming Mr. Right.

Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.