Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Libraries raised me.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

I think that I’ve had a very strange life.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

I think and that is all that I am.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

The self is hateful.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

When you’re on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn’t there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

Never complain and never explain.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.