‎To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.

Oh, Gerty, I wasn't meant to be good.

When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing reality, rather than creating scenarios.