We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.

Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination

Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.

Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.

Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.

All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning

It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.

It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions.

Faith is the soul's adventure.

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

Meeting a vampire is kind of like a celebrity sighting, but where the celebrity possibly wants to kill you.

I challenge you to be dreamers I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

I don't know if Hillary [Clinton] was saying it in a sarcastic manner, but I'm very proud to have the endorsement of the NRA.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.

Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.

Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.