The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.

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.

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true--nobody will ever take you seriously.

I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

There's more people that like me than there are who hate me, so I kind of brush it off.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.

Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.

This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.