Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Best friends are treasures. Hug them for their caring. Applaud their accomplishments. Laugh with them gratefully.

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

The people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry.

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.