Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

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.

Do not be wise your own eyes. Seek the ways of God.

There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower(...)She was stuck up there(...)So the only thing was to jump.