If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

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.

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace has no before, after, or now,

Where is the culture of cleanliness?

the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.

I think baseball has moved on in many ways and the focus on the competitions on the field is really what the game is all about. It seems to be healthy. It seems more people are watching it.

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.

The less there was to see, the harder he looked, the more he saw. (Point Omega)

There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

When the dream is right for the person and the person is right for the dream, the two cannot be separated from each other.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.