It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.

One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

My home policy: I wage war my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.