What I'm most excited about is that there's an openness to a shift, and I do think that there's a shift happening.

Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me."

When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.

In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees.

If you take a glass of water and separate it from its source - the ocean - then pour the water away from its source and ask it to sustain life, it flitters away. It just evaporates. It can't sustain life. That's a metaphor for us when we separate ourselves from our source and believe that God is separate from us.