wisdom

"Relationships are like water. If you grab tight, clamping and clenching to gain control, you’ll lose it all. Instead, cup your hand gently, so she feels free to drink until her thirst is quenched."

"You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination."

"It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back."

"I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good."

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."

"When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way."

"the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person."

"How many people you bless is how you measure success"

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

"You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted."

"Reading makes you ready for the world. A man who doesn’t read is a man who is easily deceived. You must find that man and make him sign a contract, and you must do it before Satan does. Trust me, the profits are HUGE!"

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."

"Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end."

"Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

"Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish."

"People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you."

"Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp."

"The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence."

"what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it."

"Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now."