A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

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.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

Snooty knew measly talked muchly.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

When in doubt, do something.

Joy could be as exhausting as grief.

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.