A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

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.

A smile doesn't always stand for a perfect life.

There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

Who has time for toxic relationships? If someone isn't honoring your feelings, it's not a real relationship. If you feel drained after spending time with someone, that's a red flag!

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree