Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

Peace is power.

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

I'm learning that the times I felt the best about my life and career, I'm most like the water finding that path.

There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.