Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.

The fact that we can't see the beauty in something doesn't suggest that it's not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with a broad enough perspective to see it.

If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it's helpful to do kind, peaceful things.

Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

100: Live This Day as if It Were Your Last.

Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.

Life is energy, give others the energy you want to receive from others!

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

I believe only foreigners should run for president...Face it, the presidency is a lousy job. And who does lousy jobs we don't want anymore better than foreigners?

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one.

Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.