The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

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.

That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.

The structure of our identity determines how we show up as a leader, how we deploy ourselves into circumstances.

We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia taught me that.

Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

I am not stroppy at all.

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.