Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.

If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

We think we are experiencing reality but what we are really experiencing is our thinking.

The most important choice you make is what you choose to make important.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life.

The universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle... when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it.

If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

People fall forward to success.

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

Dogs are fine in the field.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

We as a church need to decide whether we'll seek the Anointing of God or the God of the Anointing

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.