We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone.

Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

All the insight we will ever need to live well will come from fully being who and where we are.

In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

She may have had enough time to deal with things. What if she does come back? What will you do?" Grant asked me. What would I do? I'd beg.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner.

I really feel lovely when I get up with my sweetheart. When I depart a photograph shoot, as a result of someway miracles have been labored.

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.