Our past is not our potential.

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.

Christians have the advantage of searching for all the answers to their questions in God

When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference

Loving own country is to love peace

There is nothing more dangerous than idleness...In labor there is salvation; in labor there is safety.

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles.

I hope there's pudding!

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.

Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.