All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

I wished to stifle the unhappy passion which burned in my soul

how is it thathe's alwaysin my thoughts. even when i am not thinking.

Man is a plant, and its gardener. But it is only his soil that lets him rise, and it is only gardening himself, that may allow him to bear fruit.

I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!

We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

Quality … has to do with intention.

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.