In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

The only way to get anunderstanding of the true wealthin your life is to acknowledge all thethings you have to be grateful for.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.