In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

I live by grace, in the light of God.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

Getting stuck in the past and whining about who had hurt us hampers our personal growth and submerges us in the sea of self-compassion.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

I make a living off of playing shows; the albums only make me a fraction of what I make off of shows, especially since I'm doing around 100 shows a year.

Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.

Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?

If Ivanka Trump called, I think good people need to serve.

To grow, change, love, adapt, experience. We have to be open minded. This is the life and that's the way it should be lived.