It is more important to be free than to be happy.

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.

People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.

[During the ceremony, Robbins described Sarandon as a great actress.] She has stunned me in 'Bull Durham,' 'Thelma & Louise,' this morning, or when she's reading to my kids at night, ... Long may her star sparkle and shine.

Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for certainty sure can make things unsteady.

When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.