Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

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.

If you want to know what God thinks about any situation in the world, think like a parent.

Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list - a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"

We've been insufferable friends for years.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.

I would say realistically, and I don't want any headlines, but I would say realistically that next year would be the last year.