Human beings are not the central focus of the world. We may dominate the world, but just like all other creatures we have to fit in and struggle to survive.

I am attracted to certain types of people: the outrageous, outstanding and the one's pegged as odd. The 3 O's remind me not to be ordinary.

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.

Life is like the sea. Its tides and currents sometimes take a man to distant shores that he never dreamed existed

You begin to understand your personality, your response, and the functions of your body, heart and mind into different situations, events and with different people, with the inward attention.

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

You only have control over the storms you are able to have peace in.

It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.