Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.

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.

We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.

Without the earth, where can humankind live?

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

Animation is manipulating the difference.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.