A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.

The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out — a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."