You aren't afraid of what you think you're afraid of - you're afraid of what you think.

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.

They say love is blind, which makes me braille.

Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through Him who loved us.

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.

My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.