"A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next."

"God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet."

"It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'"

"I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way."

"When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

"A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting."

"I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it."

"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances."