If we're willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be eliminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation. This is the first step on the path.

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.

One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are.

Your perception of life is determined by experiences you allow take its abode in your thought pattern

It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.

Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.

Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.

Until one has given all, one has given nothing.

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.