About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

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 soul is filled with exceedingly joy.

Everything had become chaotic, and I wasn't sure how much more I wanted to take

If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.

I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent.

Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.

I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in the end.

To call me a woman is very nice.

You never quite stop loving someone when you're in that deep.

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.