The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

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.

If you are lonely, you feel separated from everybody. If you are in solitude, you feel you are in contact with the entire universe.

The Sun can be your greatest gloom, or your greatest comforter, depending on how you view its shine.

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.