“People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.”

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don’t know what they are talking about.

Don’t keep saying, “I don’t know where the time goes.” It goes the same place it’s always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes – that’s what I’m here for.

It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.

Don’t you hate it when, your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

If I’d known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can’t remember a single project I would have started.

A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, “What are you thinking?”. She doesn’t care what you think.

Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion – as long as it agrees with ours.

Don’t take a butcher’s advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he’d be a chef.

I’ve learned, That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

These days everything has a dark mode. I feel – accepted.

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

A zebra does not change its spots.

The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to “the sweetness of belonging,” is acceptance – acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.

I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.