Be grown enough to do whatever you want to, but wise enough to always do the right thing.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.

There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated.

The art of life is to show your hand.

One of the greatest misconceptions about Theodore Roosevelt - in his time and ours - is that he was impetuous.

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.