"Chaos is Peace… Blackness, blackness intolerable, before the beginning of the light. This is the first verse of Genesis. Holy art thou, Chaos, Chaos, Eternity, all contradictions in terms!"

"Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure."

"It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment."

"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything."

"Release your attachment to the outcome. Invest fully in your intention. Stand for the truth. Keep kindness a priority."

"We are contributing to the world just by being willing to be ourselves."

"When you live with intention, your primary focus is the process rather than the end result."

"Being willing makes you able."

"Where you begin doesn't matter. Your willingness to start is what counts."

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

"Accountability breeds response-ability."

"The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle."

"Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We cansubordinate feelings to values."

"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader."

"If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster."

"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage--pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically--to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'"

"We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions."

"Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective."

"Seek first to understand and then to be understood."

"The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self / with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."

"Who seeks shall find."

"The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach"

"For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds."