All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

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.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

In other words, the proof of spiritual maturity is not how 'pure' you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989.

Most of the smart things I've ever thought or written came vis-a-vis my body.

I fell in love with Africa while I was there.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

If you’re not hearing the music of the gospel in your home, please remember these two words: keep practicing.