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.

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.

Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

Historical gap is created due to missing written records.

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

Experience yourself in silence.

Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.

In every end, there is also a beginning.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.

What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.