You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.

And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?

intuition is always right in at least two important ways; It is always in response to something. it always has your best interest at heart

Persistence only proves persistence-it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn't mean you are special-it means he is troubled.

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.

Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily.

Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.

I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.

No matter how famous the victim, no matter how powerful the advocates, it simply isn't always possible to control the conduct of other people.

Mindfulness is to understand that there is a no moment left to be unhappy.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.

Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.