It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

If ministry is not about compassion and passion, let it die.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.