What is it you want? My reply, I want what I have.

Be humble and grateful for what you have and the universe will reward your gratitude.

It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.

Look inside, without anyone else's validation understand that you are valuable, talented, unique, and worthy.

Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in

If not now then when? Oh I can always do it tomorrow. Unfortunately there is no lifetime of tomorrows.

Enjoy what you have, live in the moment, focus on things you can change and ignore the rest.

Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent.

Be happy with who you are, where you are, for this is the way.

Failure to meditate in the morning increases the probability of chaos throughout the day.

You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.

The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.

A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.

If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

I don't like caricature. I don't like extreme, I don't like that.