When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.

The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another.

Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.

A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate.

The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality. . . eventually only the core remains.

When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.

Wisdom is the highest position a man can attain!

For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

Research shows that the happiest people are those who use their natural talents to the utmost.