I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever laughed at them.

What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

Thought is the ultimate tonal. Each thought is like a dike that blocks out the nagual.

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases