If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

Think bigger. Forget limits. Embrace the idea of endless possibility.... It will change you.

We shouldn’t use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.