“We can all make the world a better place through the moment-to-moment decisions we make as we interact with people.”

“Theres plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.”

“There’s nothing wrong with accumulating wealth, receiving recognition for your efforts, and having some power and status--what’s wrong is when you think that’s who you are.”

“There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.”

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!”

“You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”