Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

When the silence of the night becomes the chanting of poetry, the departure of con-cavity

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

There is no right or wrong behavior. The only meaningful choice is between fear and love.

Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings to you but for what you can bring to it.

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.