If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

Once bitten, twice alert.. Don't shy away.

We cannot control all the circumstances of our lives, but we can control our attitudes and our actions. If we don’t, someone else will.

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.

We need to move beyond asking what drug will treat the symptoms, and instead ask what mechanism creates altered neurochemical or neurobiological function or systemic physiological change.

I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.

Anytime you’re on the podium, it’s good.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.