When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.

This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

The past the present and the future are really one: they are today.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class.

As long as people are listening that's all that matters.

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

You cannot petition the lord with prayer!

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.