To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

I can’t live without books, music and wonder.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie ten Boom

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

The burden is on the sane.

I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.

Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.

I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times.

I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes.