Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.

Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

Repentance seemed like too loose of a word. I knew I’d been wrong, but that didn’t soften the blow.

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

She closed her eyes and let the rain fall on her face, and after another second, I could not have said what were raindrops, and what tears.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And that's quite generally true.

There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.