If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.

There is nothing more painful than walking around with bitterness in your heart.

Within me is the potential to commit every evil act I see being committed by other men, and unless I feel this potential, I can at any moment be controlled by these same urges. I am free from these urges only if I recognize when I am feeling them, and while feeling them and acknowledging them to be me, choose not to follow them. Only in this way can I begin to regain the disowned parts of me. And only in this way can I know what it is I am criticizing in others.

I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.

Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.