I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

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.

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

Truly, to blame the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

We created computers as an extension of our brains, and now we're connecting through those computers and the Internet cloud as a way of expanding them.

The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.