One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

Who asks a king for a penny?

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.