Go back a little to leap further.

If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole you'll never manage to button up.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools.

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. Choose now. Choose well.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which they were created.