In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.

Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen of your thinking. You notice it as you become more awake.

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!