Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Crystals amplify the consciousness.

...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.

Be courageous! ... I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.