Fear has silenced the voice of truth in your world, and this is the anguish with which you struggle.

Love means setting aside walls, fences, and unlocking doors and saying 'Yes.' One can be in paradise by simply saying 'yes' to this moment.

If it makes you happy, it’s what you’re supposed to do.

Every bit of you is worthy of your loving.

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed, so I accepted the sky

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

I cannot think of a better definition of Christianity than that: give, give, give.

Likewise, I would never be so rude as to not interrupt a friend. How else would she know I was listening?

There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.