Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Truth shines light on darkness by questioning it.

We fear beginnings we fear endings. We fear changing we fear “staying stuck.” We fear success we fear failure. We fear living we fear dying.

Working on the summit of Mauna Kea was comparable to working on the hospital pulmonary ward with sick people sucking on oxygen cylinders.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love?