There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

I am not famous at all.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.

I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?

In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything.

Visionaries see the "impossible" as the inevitable.

Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.

Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.