You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Life is a service. What you will do lies in your soul.

We must desire to see people rising in life, rather than looking for ways to contribute to their fall.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong."

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.