... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

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.

Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.

I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day.

There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.

A guy at ABC told me to change my name and get a nose job. I said 'You get a nose job.'

If I weren't acting I'd be a very unhappy, unfulfilled woman.

No question that the spotlight on Darfur has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared. And that's deeply problematic, because it hasn't disappeared because Darfur has been solved.

I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.