The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

What I know definitively about life at this age … is absolutely nothing.

Having faith and belief in my inner guidance allows me to see the world in a way that strengthens that faith and belief and brings with it a life filled with welcomed expectation and awe.

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

See yourself in abundance and you will attract it. It works every time, with every person.

If I get invited somewhere I can never usually say no. And then I don't leave until I'm asked to.

Religion has always persecuted science.

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them.

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

The whole world is simply nothing more than a flow chart for capital.