Live with a peaceful heart; cultivate a warrior's spirit.

The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.

You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.

Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.