Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren’t.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars, Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent.

Suffering has always been with us does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew.

Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.

The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.

[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.

Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don’t choose the ideas, they choose me. I don’t wait for them. They come without my permission!

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.