As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.

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.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.