I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

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.

Don’t worry about the haters… They are just angry because the truth you speak contradicts the lie they live.

MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS! Someone's coming who wants to reason with us.

There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.

Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn.

If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

My goal is to live to be 100.