If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.

The journey toward the heart is always a journey home.

You are much more than the sum of what you produce.

Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey.

Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.