Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

To be a good ruler one must be the best of servants.

For a thousand years, and then a thousand more…I will love you.

In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

What we are going to end up with here is two nations. That will create real resentment in the workforce.

All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

The single biggest problem in design is finding out from the client what it is that they really want.