Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet.

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.

We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference

Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you

True leaders are born when you find something to die for

No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live

Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being . . . my essence . . . is a part of all Being, all Essence.

When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter

If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake them up.

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

Don't wait for someone to enable you to make something.

Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.

Expect the best and get it.