It's hard to stay on purpose if we don't know what our purpose is.

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.

Bullies are masters at holding others responsible for their misbehavior. Instead of claiming "the devil made me do it", they argue "You made me do it".

Mistakes are the doorway to discovery.

Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.

Mistakes are doorways to discovery.

Anyone who consistently makes you feel bad is not helping you get better.

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

If they can't repeat it, they didn't get it.

People don't want information; they want epiphanies.

One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with.

I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.

Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

Thinking based on who deserves what blocks compassionate communication.

You've got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.

I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?