Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

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.

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

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.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.

For the contented minds, lakes are oceans!

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

He's 31 this year: last year he was 30.

It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.

If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?