If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.

A challenging life isn't impossible to overcome, but it does mean that you might have to work a little harder to overcome it.

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

He had no idea that grief was a reward. That it only came to those who were loyal, to those who loved more than they were capable of.

I am fundamentally an optimist.

I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.