If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

See money – currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning earning and yearning.

We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'

People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.