A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.

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.

At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.

Power will always attract the greedy and the weak.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

I have an aversion to conformity.

I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!