When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.

The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.

Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

Throughout world history, all freedom has been no more than repetitious abolishment of what has already been abolished. There is no end to the killing of weeds.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.

We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

A team that is always fun with witty sense of humor. We help each other around a lot and help push each other to be better

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.