I've never tried pot; I've never tried anything.
You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.
To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.
All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.
If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.
When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.
Overpay good baby-sitters.
What we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.
So what we have is an American foreign policy that is inextricably linked to domestic matters. It is very dangerous for a politician who desires nothing more than to stay in office to address the mindset that any change in policy is appeasement. And Americans will accept that for a certain amount of time.