Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

Don’t try to make anyone like you. Work on you and the right people will be drawn to you. Mind games consume energy that could have been used on something more productive and fulfilling.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.