Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

Adults under threat feel like children.

Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.