Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.