If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary!

I don't know if it's the economy, but finding work as a spiritual guru is really hard. Maybe I should grow my hair out.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

You know what freaks me out? Having your personal life live-tweeted so that everyone can make fun of you forever.

Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.