In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.

Just tell me what's so irritating."(katsu)That's none of your damn business!"(kyok)Maybe not. But I'm curious."(

When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now.

I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

Sometimes, you know, you have to cause trouble to end trouble.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

I own my life. And only mine. And so I shall appreciate my person. And so I shall make proper use of myself.

Death is not goodbye.