I'm not a member of any organized party I'm a Democrat.

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.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.

We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.

Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially.