Everything happens for me, not to me.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

With music that I write, I like to have in there something you can relate to, a way to share the experience.

Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil.

You know you're old when the president is younger than you.

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work