Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

I’ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you’ve gone over to the Dark Side. But I’ll be fine. That’s the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it.

I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward- your destiny-are here and now.

A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth.