Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

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.

That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.

Anything that kills hope is a sin

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

What was stolen must be returned

We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.