“You are the grand estate and administrator of — now.”
“All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further.”
“Any good is good enough.”
“There is no such thing as perfection and it is okay for you to have negative thoughts.”
“One positive thought will shift the entire world under your feet.”
“There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.”
“Maybe you are a pig and don t even know it.”
“The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs.”
“You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you.”
“When someone is hard on you it may have very little to do with you.”
“No one can make you feel anything; you are completely responsible for how you feel.”
“Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water.”
“You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner.”
“Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life s gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.”
“You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.”
“When children are taught to be good and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people s happiness.”
“We understand why it is better to teach a starving man to fish, but a repertoire course is worse than handing a a fish to a starving man. Our students are not starving; if anything, they are drowning in a sea of information. So a survey course is more like handing a giant box of chocolates to a fat, rich man.”