“To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.”

It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.

We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.

When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.

The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.

Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series ‘on purpose’ ?

Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.

How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.

Perspective is what allows us to step back and see the entire forest instead of just the same old tree we keep running into again and again.

When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

The most successful form of correction is when the “other” feels informed versus chastised.

Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.

I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.