So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

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.

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

We're Mexican not Mexican't!

Columbus gave the world another world.

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

We had a church together. We co-founded and co-pastored the ministry, but Randy [White] was really a strong part.

When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise.

Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!