Mastery, on the other hand, is being present with what is occurring, staying with it from beginning to end.

Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring.

Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

I couldn't stand the thought of not succeeding failure was more than I could deal with.

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

Terrorists have been supported by tens of foreign countries, so Syria alone wouldn't be able to face this kind of war without the help of its friends.

I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit

Experience does not give you wisdom, it gives you habits.