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.

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

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

The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.