Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Nothing adventured, nothing attained

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.