Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

When a flower rises from the earth, it is overcoming its greatest opponent: fear.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

You just have to be the kind of guy to get people to do things.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now.

We should therefore be opposed to institutional barriers to that freedom: Military dictatorships, for example. Or states run by a Central Committee.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

I would rather train someone and lose them, than not train them and keep them