People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.

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.

Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

Life is too short to blame other people.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!

I was always responsible for everything in my campaign.

Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.