Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

You named the chicken, Chicken?" She looked embarrassed. "When we decided not to kill it, I got attached.

I can deal with anything in this world, except your silence.

It was... the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.

Public service is my motto.

Well, once I fried tofu and put Sriracha on it. After that I was so depressed I swore off preparing food for myself altogether.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.