We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

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.

You were born a star

Trying to make sense of love is like trying to dissect a rainbow.

I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.

I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.