You can deal with stressful life experiences with strength from past ones.

Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

My favorite definition of the mindful path is the one the reveals itself as you walk down it. You cannot find the path until you step on to it.

Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.

When you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience.

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices.

People come up with resolutions that don’t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.

The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

You can be all that you wish to be. Go for the challenge.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

One of the things I would love to do, by the time I die, is be in every single genre. That would be really fun. I get to shoot guns and jump out of a helicopter.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

I like people's attitudes more than fashion or beauty or whatever it is.

Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

Our success already exists on a spiritual level; it's a matter of pulling it into the physical world.

It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless

In order to put an end to the occupation, you must make peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people. This is the real aim, this is the real task.