Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

The place we get lost is the very place that we're found, all we need to do is put one foot in front of the other.

I have shed enough tears over you lately and you don't deserve any of them

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

If you create Youtility, your customers will keep you close.

I wouldn't go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.