Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.

It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.

Happiness--like love--is itself an attitude.

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.

Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

Fear nothing

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

I'm excited for my little girls. When they left the nest, I was excited because they were winging their way into life.

We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.

Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear of authority.

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.