I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

...good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.

Having authored numerous and pretty versatile write-ups, I can’t say that anything other than my soul, heart and life experience can be called a prominent part of every book I ever wrote

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.

But if we have the energy of compassion and loving kindness in us, the people around us will be influenced by our way of being and living.