“If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.”

“It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.”

“How often – even before we began – have we declared a task “impossible”? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate? . . . A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.”

“Eliminate something superfluous from your life.Break a habit.Do something that makes you feel insecure.Carry out an action with complete attention and intensity, as if it were your last.”

“Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.” (p.157)”

“The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.”

“Since we came to this world we only heard lies. But it's the lies that make it interesting. The truth would devastate us”