SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

Anything is possible with laughter. If you can laugh out loud, especially at a life of mistakes, you will come out unscathed.

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.

I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.