A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.

Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

The miracle is when you shift. The miracle is when you know there is no hill - you're removing the hill. The miracle is when you realize the time of physical decline can be a time of spiritual incline.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.