A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Now is the time to become a myth.

I'd paralyze anyone who wanted to hurt me.

The divine light of our hearts will brighten the days of darkness.

Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions.

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.

My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

Don’t question in the dark what God showed you in the light.