I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

I search for love frantically... and quitting at the last moment by making excuse for myself that I've tried

No religion can fully accept another religion, that’s the one belief all religions share

The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

I'm the most antimedication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.

I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.

Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits.