Byron Katie

When you want nothing from anyone else, you’re safe for anyone to be with. Including yourself.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.

There is no mistake in nature.

Man is what he believes.

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

Am I ever gonna grow a thick skin? No.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

A person who trusts no one can’t be trusted.

This is the only reason Greenfield Village exists-to give us a sense of unity with our people through the generations, and to convey the inspiration of American genius to our young men. As a nation we have not depended so much on rare or occasional genius as on the general resourcefulness of our people. That is our true genius, and I am hoping that Greenfield Village will serve that.

You know, it sounds like I’m bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, there’s not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.

A tiny leak can sink a ship.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.