Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

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.

If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased.

Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become.

The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

The information is in the people, not in your head.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

China is a long caravan, longer and stronger than the Wall.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.