A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

The other side of every fear is a freedom.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.

Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.

Most of the people are nice to live with, but not to do business with!

When in doubt, know your way out, I always say.""I thought you always said, 'When in doubt, blame the dark elves.'""Well, yeah, that

Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Politicians are conservative by nature.

We're not ordinary, you don't want to be ordinary.

Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.