The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

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.

A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay.

The twins are talented, quality people who have shown continuous improvement in all aspects of their game since joining the Canucks.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.

I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.

We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person.

I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.

There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.