Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.