"I hold the value of life is..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Most people are as happy as they want to be.”

“Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.”

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”

“If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.”

“We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.”

“Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and its conditioned patterns, the moment you become present....Nobody chooses dysfunction, conflict, pain. Nobody chooses insanity. They happen because there is not enough presence in you to dissolve the past, not enough light to dispel the darkness. You are not fully here. You have not quite woken up yet. In the meantime, the conditioned mind is running your life.”

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

“Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.”

“Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.”