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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.
Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible.
Teach the student to see the land, understand what he sees, and enjoy what he understands.
I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.
I get all dressed up in fuchsia, looking like a clown, and show pretty pictures to people.
Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.
the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.
Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.
We yearn for there to be meaning to our lives, balanced with a sense of inner peace & joy.
Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.
Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.
Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.
Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.
When you realize your own magnificence, you will only attract magnificence into your life.
Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.
I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.
Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.
Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.
We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.
A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.
When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.
Organized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .
Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.
Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.
Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are.
That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened
Things are sometimes better left as they are, but you can't be sure until you change them.
Leaders need 5 core competences: soul, head, hand, heart, body. Where do you need to grow?