There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand

The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?

When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.

We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment.

I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution - we must protect that at all costs.

I know a secret, and secrets breed paranoia.

Out of one hundred random thoughts that pass through your mind, ninety-five are your brain's indirect responses (positive & negative) to what you believe others think of you.

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.