it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible.

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.

The cream rises to the top, even if sour.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.

The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.

Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.