The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.

Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

I have always been adventurous and rather daring.

The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.

I spend my own money, not other people's money.