Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

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.

Incredible ideas, results, and outcomes are possible when two or more minds come together for a common purpose.

Be careful of what we say or do on this earth as every word and every action has a return.

Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there.

An air of mystery closed around the details of his early life. I didn't pry. He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets.

Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies." ~ Angelica Hopes~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You

She hadn’t planned any of this, but her thoughts ran away with her, and she hated how pathetic she must sound. Poor little human needed the big bad angel to rescue her. Yuck.

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

Being in a relationship is like being in A.A. My friends ask me, 'How's it going with that girl?' 'One day at a time, man.'

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.