This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

Nothing, ' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act.

I am a farmer of kindness and compassion

My nerves were wrapped so tight I could explode at any second. Some jaguar reciting poetry was not helping. “Just tell me which way to go, Shakespeare.

Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.

Intense, sustained focus fuels manifestation.

For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.

As for Supernatural, I had seen many episodes and enjoyed the show before my audition.

The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.

Sometimes your dream has to die so God's dream can come alive in you.

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.