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.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

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

True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.