Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy.

Life works in mysterious ways, and I believe one of the biggest challenges and successes is to let go and let it be.

Setbacks allow us to take a step back and look at the view from a whole.

If only you knew how beautiful you are unconditionally. Don't you know it's enough if all you do is breathe?

Everyone holds his or her own key to success and happiness. It's just that sometimes you have to test out a lot of wrong keys first to find the one that fits.

I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.

How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?

I was not born to wait.

The best way to filter out the bad seeds was to place a job ad for Prime Minister in a national newspaper and all those that applied would be automatically disqualified.

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

Laws without morals are in vain.

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.

To engage in any activity, the warrior needs to know what to expect, how to achieve the objective and whether or not he is capable of carrying out the proposed task.