Byron Katie

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

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

There is no mistake in nature.

Love is kind, it’s clear. It’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

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

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Insight emerges out of silence.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

I know nothing and my heart aches.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at Grandma’s house. And a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both. He was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger-side door.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

All heiresses are beautiful.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.