Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.

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.

Prosperity is peace.

Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

True wisdom always leads us to please God.

The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.