Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

If you would judge, understand.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

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

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Everybody has a purpose.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.