Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.

Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.