The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

If you want to be free, learn to live simply.

Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sensationalism for learning.

Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.

Your behaviour influences others through a ripple effect. A ripple effect works because everyone influences everyone else. Powerful people are powerful influences.

Silence is a great source of strength.

The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.

Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.

Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

I would rather burn out than rust out.

Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.

Refusing to focus on your past disappointments creates a great opportunity for you to give an undivided attention to your present.

We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

Dreams do come true. Yes, even yours. But you have to meet them part way. Get up and do something towards them. Now.

Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.

Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.