Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.

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.

Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?

Time never changes—we change. We complain that time is the culprit which forces us to change.

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.

We found that we didn't have much problem with him [J.C.], it was his followers we found questionable.

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.

I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.

I think it will be, as always, interesting to compare different portrayals of Hitchcock. I'm very honored that I'm playing the same part as Anthony Hopkins.