The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all

But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, "I am a mechanic." At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job.

I've taken my destiny into my own hands and I'm in a happy place.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.