America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.

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.

The only thing set in stone are dumb quotes and names of dead people. Everything else is subject to change.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.

Through the hollow globe, a ring of frayed rusty scrapiron, is it the sea that shines? Is it a road at the world's edge?

For me, it's interesting because I never thought of myself as an action man, but apparently I can do it, so that's good to know.

Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb.

I'm not very domestic. For years my children thought mold was a frosting.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

What we need is legislation, not negotiation, for the entire globe.