..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

I can only motivate if you ALLOW me to motivate.

When from our better selves we have too longBeen parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude

War is organized murder and nothing else

...the morning with the whole day waiting, full of promise, the nightof quiet, of no expectations, of rest.And the certainty of home, the one I live in, and the onethat lives in me.

I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.

Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.

Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.

In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

I try to sing and not worry about what's going to happen after I do. I'd add that in my experience, as a person who went to see singers, some people helped me to make some decisions about the world.