We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
The need is not to amputate the ego. . . but to transcend it.
The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live.
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.
I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.
I'll get rid of the drug problem. The first drug dealer will be publicly executed in front of everybody and all of the sudden the rest of the drug dealers are going to go "Uh oh!" Watch how fast the drug problem disappears. If you use drugs, you're addicted and you steal something, you'll get sent off to the outback and to work camps and all of the sudden no drug addicts. See how simple that is? So simple.
But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.