Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

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.

There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.

The books must be read, not seen in a movie.

sing so loud that the musicdrowns out the sounds ofthe naysayers.one day they’ll be singingyour song.

Trapped like a trap in a trap

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Can I catch Johnny Manziel? Yes, I would go right at him. Hit him in the mouth.

Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.

But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.

I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!'