"In life you need either inspiration or desperation."

"Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life."

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."

"My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain."

"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."

"The foundation of joy is a single moment of clarity can change a lifetime."

"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."

"To dream is to realize that the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."