Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

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.

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.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

Success starts with a good plan. To have it, you have to plan it.

Your marriage, " Jake said, almost impatiently. "It's like the grapes. Just a paint job."He went straight to bed.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

Give me lace and whiskey, Mama's own remedy.

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

Character is the architect of the being.

A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

I’ll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.