All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

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.

Just as the Bible is God’s written Word, so Jesus is God’s living Word.

I'm into women. I've always loved women.

If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

You can't pack everything into every single story.

I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.

Good writing is lean and confident.