We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

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.

…the truest feeling of happiness is the security that comes with being loved.

I don't believe in ONE holy book. I believe all books are holy. Of course, some books are holy shit.

Those who believe in it are the ones who find it

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.

I want to identify what a genuine man does—the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood—and then call men to do it.