A truly successful person is not one who achieves his highest ambitions, but one who enjoys helping others reach theirs.

I’m going to tell you something that will make you very happy: your god is the one true god. Just remember, I am telling this to everyone… and I mean it.

A true leader should have the power to begin, the eloquence to communicate, the patience to execute and the wisdom to evaluate. Without one, he remains a slave to he who possesses it.

Wise people offer their wisdom for free and accept all gifts, for they know that the universe is not giving them gifts, but tools they will need on their road to wisdom.

It is an insult to a wise person when his motives for guiding are questioned. However, he understands that people aren’t used to free gifts and still helps them anyway.

A leader, without wisdom, is dangerous. A wise person, without leadership, is useless. But if they work together, they are unstoppable.

Find that person who will make your whole world tremble with a few words. Apprentice yourself faithfully to him until you can make your own world tremble constantly.

The relationship between apprentice and mentor is one of the most beautiful and most sacred relationships. In sharing his wisdom with his apprentice, the mentor discovers even more wisdom to share.

There are only three things which increase when shared: love, wisdom and happiness.

The universe is an ocean upon which we are the waves. While some decide to surf, others venture to dive.

When you allow the spirit to speak through you and empower it with love, you will discover things you didn't know you knew.

To be a good ruler one must be the best of servants.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

Who people like is their own business. It don't concern me. I know what I do - and I'm having a lot of fun with the women that I'm with.

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.

To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us.