Every quote, in one place.

“It's easier to lose than to win. ”

“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.”

“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”

“On the other side of the clouds is a bright blue sky.”

“Embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied.”

“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.”

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

“It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.”

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

“Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty.”

“Evil is whatever distracts. ”

“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.”

“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.”

“What a liberation to realize that 'the voice in my head' is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.”

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

“I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.”

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.”