America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.

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.

No matter how different we are on the outside, the love we have within us is the same.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

I never pay any attention to figures.

Sometimes we need to speak oddly to see clearly.

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.