When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

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.

I loved you even when you forgot me.And—for a little while—you loved me back.

If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.

I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like “shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.

I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

When we are angry, killing people is too superficial.

Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.

... And God, who studies each separate soul, out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.