We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.
Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain’t that a big enough majority in any town?
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
Blood banks are all closed; you can’t use others to keep you warm.
One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.
True freedom is being free from the search for freedom.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
Who we are now is all that really matters.
Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.
[on Diana’s Death] I remember just feeling completely numb, disorientated, dizzy.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.
Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.
We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
