Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

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.

...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me...

Humanized gods are too small to captivate my imagination, or be worthy of my fullest allegiance.

Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.

There is a technical solution to every political problem...

In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.