Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

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

We are all saying the same thing in different words.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

Sometimes when I generalize, I am saying, 'Let's pretend I am God,' and of course the other person argues that point endlessly. But I notice that if the other person takes a stand for himself and states his thoughts as his thoughts, I pay more attention to what he is saying and look deeper in myself.

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.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.