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“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.”
“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. ”
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
“Fishing is much more than fish.”
“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.”
“Small men think they are small; great men never know they are great. ”
“The sun is new each day.”
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
“Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.”
“The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.”
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