Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.

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.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

Begin to think of how you could maximize the time you have through hard work and through concentration.

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give.

Long, long ago, before eruptions were invented, the molten lava had to be carried down the mountainside, bucket by bucket, and poured over the sleeping villagers. This took time.

If there is one bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterward.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

It's nice we work in a place where you're allowed to keep coming back to have new experiences together.

When boxers are in the ring, they're simple. It's when the fight is over, that's when the other fight, the real fight, begins. That's the problem.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.