My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience will answer.

The right reason and motive for success, while pursued in the right way, will trigger divine support, human celebration and personal fulfillment because the endeavor becomes bigger than oneself.

Only few people enjoy life in better way rest of the made just to facilitate those few.

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wonderous dream arises.

People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.

Floyd Paterson and other fighters, they just don't take part.They make a million dollars, they get a Rolls Royce and a nice home and a white wife and think, 'well, I made it'.

Habits are happiness of a sort...

One of the best practices in the manual of human existence is to assist people who need help when you can safely do so. The best people help those who need help.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.