The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

Liberation is an interesting word, because you can be liberated from external things, and also from your internal dialogue.

We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.

If you have a sense of yourself, your mission, your belief system, those things will lead you to success

Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.