Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

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.

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

A person’s true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.It is totally consistent.

Sculpting the future and healing the past can only happen through mindful action in the present moment.

Especially on rainy nights like this, they would congregate under the bridge, all the boys from nowhere, the boys who lived nowhere, who had nowhere else to go.

...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

I hated that perception that I didn't work hard, that I really don't love basketball.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

Anger manages everything badly.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

Compared to Imelda Marcos, Marie Antoinette was a bag lady.