The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life.

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.

The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

The universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle... when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it.

If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I'm really not a morning girl.

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.

If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.