One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.

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.

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.

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.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.