No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.

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.

I’ll always be a student, because I think of music as never ending.

You can have, you can be, you can do whatever you want to do once you make the decision, so that would be my greatest piece of advice.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

it is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.

I really like figure skating.

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

It is my children who have made all this possible. My children are my wealth; they are my strength.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

The better question to ask yourself is: How to correct your diet so you can start losing weight?

A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.