I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.

I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing.

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you.

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.

Believe me, you have to get up early if you want to get out of bed.

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a strong proponent of general education -- because I saw how it opened my eyes.

Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.