Change starts with awareness.

First-class relationships are possible only in an atmosphere of total trust.

Trustworthy partners always think first before they do anything that may affect either the reputation or well-being of each other.

To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously- give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself.

A diminished self-image will cause you to slouch, to avoid meeting others, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, and to be indecisive.

When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure.

If you struggle making people knowing Jesus, then you better revise your actions.

I do not feel any obligations toward my lineage, or environment, but an inclination to what feels right.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento I will pump up Sacramento.

When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts.

It's too easy to find people who've failed and are embittered. The best thing you can do is hang around people who've succeeded and are happy doing what you want to do. Learn from them.

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.