You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.