People who achieve access to the deepest roots of their freedom can completely change.

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action - to be a leader.

The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.

Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times

To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred.

whoever approaches his goal dances

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?

There is also a philosophy of less-is-more, and a little dignity that never hurt anybody. There are many qualities to admire about our father's generation.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

I do have my concerns for mankind as a species. Way I see it, humans are in transition. Accelerating at f**king light speed into some new insanity, and no one really knows how it's going to turn out.

The longer the meeting, the less is accomplished.