The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

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.

I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.

Things always become obvious after the fact

The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.

It is not wrong to think that the traditional buying of a product has been replaced with an unwritten contract of shared values between a business and its customers.

It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.

Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.