Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

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.

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.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

History judges a leader by results. Let my results do the talking.

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.

Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.

I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.

No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure