I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.

When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead. When you can calm yourself down, thinking about the dilemma that is causing you pain will bring you to a higher level and enlighten you, leading to progress.

Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.

With the media, we don't know what's true, and we don't have radical transparency because we're seeing everything through somebody else's eyes. There's no other industry that has as much power and as much freedom and as little quality control. I can't imagine how anyone could not think that's a problem.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

When two intelligent parties disagree, that's when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins.