The best things in life cannot be willed into being.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.

Attitude Is More Important Than Talent

Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.

In America, public opinion is the leader

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

Why is it important for you to know the real God? Because your identity is found in Him.

Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!

I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with the different stories, and have all these layers to peel back.