You'll never learn a thing from a competitor weaker than you.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.

Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

You should have access to ideas and information regardless of your age. If anyone is going to limit or guide a young person, it should be the parent or guardian and only the parent or guardian.

I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

So study your rock history, son. That be the Bible of the Blues.

Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.