I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous.

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.