Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

Why must one love rarely to love well?

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

I'm not a computer guy. I have my Smith Corona. I would know nothing about computers.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward fighting death will be down and I'll wake up in a morgue.