What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

I like paths that lead nowhere, that leave you wondering where you are.

Soon we will be in heaven and that opportunity will be over, let us not regret that we could have loved the brethren more.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

If Donald Trump loses badly, it could mean the end of the GOP as one of the two significant parties.

Pity swells the tide of love.

Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.