You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

Scripture, empowered by God’s Spirit, is the instrument that brings people to salvation.

Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

The only people you need in your life are the ones that prove they need you in theirs.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.