I don't believe. I know.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad

Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.

The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.

Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.

If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.