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

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

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

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.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.

To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.

This was never about the money... Don't you understand? A world without good art is a far more dangerous place than one you don't get paid for making it in.

Computers make me totally blank out.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.