Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

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.

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

I was beginning to feel compassion for myself.

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.

Drinking and driving is safer than either drinking or driving - and no one has ever died drinking, driving and juggling.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

It hurts to see anybody in pain, if you've got any kind of heart.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.