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.

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.

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.

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

Nothing is the truer than the Truth.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate God-given abilities.

Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

I don't really go into shock around celebrity.

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.