Don’t live in regret over missed opportunities, for if you do, you will miss even more.

I’m going to tell you something that will make you very happy: your god is the one true god. Just remember, I am telling this to everyone… and I mean it.

A true leader should have the power to begin, the eloquence to communicate, the patience to execute and the wisdom to evaluate. Without one, he remains a slave to he who possesses it.

Wise people offer their wisdom for free and accept all gifts, for they know that the universe is not giving them gifts, but tools they will need on their road to wisdom.

It is an insult to a wise person when his motives for guiding are questioned. However, he understands that people aren’t used to free gifts and still helps them anyway.

A leader, without wisdom, is dangerous. A wise person, without leadership, is useless. But if they work together, they are unstoppable.

Find that person who will make your whole world tremble with a few words. Apprentice yourself faithfully to him until you can make your own world tremble constantly.

The relationship between apprentice and mentor is one of the most beautiful and most sacred relationships. In sharing his wisdom with his apprentice, the mentor discovers even more wisdom to share.

There are only three things which increase when shared: love, wisdom and happiness.

The universe is an ocean upon which we are the waves. While some decide to surf, others venture to dive.

When you allow the spirit to speak through you and empower it with love, you will discover things you didn't know you knew.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing.

Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.

It’s never easy letting go. But if we don’t learn the art of relinquishment, we’ll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.

When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.

I'm proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love. Love.