“If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one.”

“The Spirituality and Self-Help industry wants you to be empowered enough to buy their products, but disempowered enough to still think you need them.”

“A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.”

“Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.”

“From warm meals, to daily exercise, to healthcare; one can't help but wonder how our society would be different if tended to the elderly as we do to our imprisoned.”

“Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you.”

“The writers of religious scriptures and texts would have done humanity a grand service if they would have used just one sentence, in one of the pages out of the thousands, to support respectful and peaceful disagreement.”