Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Treat yourself at least as well as you treat other people.

Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?

The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written . . . the book is merely a symbol of the writing. In writing the book, I am living. I am growing. I am tapping myself. I am changing. The process is the product.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.