I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to impede change.

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

It was going to be the journey of a lifetime, a journey that millions dream of and never make, and I wanted to do justice to all those dreams.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

If a man realizes who he is, he cannot lose his peace and gladness because he lives at peace with himself

The lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness

What you are good at, you never do it free!

Once you find your positive vision, then share the victory of your loving attitudes with everyone.

Our best thoughts come from others.

There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For many of us, books play a major role in that adventure

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.