When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

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.

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

One thing is certain and the rest is lies The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending.

The high-tech industry needs the immigration of highly qualified labor, from India, from China, from everywhere.

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.