The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind.

Anger and worry are the enemies of clear thought.

For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.