“Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.”

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.

Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.

There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!

If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident … Hitler was afraid.

To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.

To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the ‘sponsoring thought’ that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.

Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.

The majority of fighters now are Al-Qaeda. If you want to support them, you are supporting Al-Qaeda, you are creating havoc in the region, and if this region is not stable, the whole world cannot be stable.

Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.

Climate change is…a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better – all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive.

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance — the one value that is indispensable in creating community.