There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

One person with a divine purpose, passion and power is better than 99 people who are merely interested. Passion is stronger than interest.

There is a strong movement, especially in Protestantism, to recast the Christian message in order to make it acceptable to modern man.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!

I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.

It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?