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.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

Belittling nostalgia is a frightened man's parlor trick. Be grateful for any prize. Even a paper fortress, albeit briefly, provides shelter from the rain.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.

All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.