“You can't change the fruit without changing the root.”

“People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.”

“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”

“We could spend weeks, months, even years laboring with the personality ethic trying to change our attitudes and behaviors and not even begin to approach the phenomenon of change that occurs spontaneously when we see things differently”

“It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.”

“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”

“Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually”