I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

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.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. --From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a chance to go deeply into the characters.