The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

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.

Live life with passion from our hearts and believe. Let love be the reason and purpose of life

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.

If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!

I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Bring a raincoat, definitely ... or at Least a little umbrella that can fit in your bag, because it always does rain.

Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.