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Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.".

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure-which is: Try to please everybody.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Don't think it, ink it.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.