There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food

Deepak Chopra

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

William Shakespeare

we can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand

Albert Einstein

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

Lee Konitz

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

Harold Rosenberg

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Alex Morrison

The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

Carter G. Woodson

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

Neil Gaiman

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Oliver Goldsmith

Design is people.

Jane Jacobs

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

Irvin D. Yalom