If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

We know nothing until intuition agrees.