Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

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.

Developing a world class vision is the secret to world-class motivation.

MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

Those who always have a sense of appreciation and gratitude never reach an impasse in life.

The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.