If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

Physical perfection, working out, adds to your spiritual perfection if that is your intent.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.