Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.

Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

One of the most important results you can bring into the world is the you that you really want to be.

Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality.

You cannot create what you want by moving away from what you don't want.

The best way to experience the power of fundamental choices is to make them.

One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh).

What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible.

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.

My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.