If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

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.

Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others.

Each of us can improve our internal person and develop the character required for a successful life

Don’t waste your precious time in worrying about someone taking your place. You know God has already planned something for you. Focus on your job and you will reach the place you deserve!

You are the observer who watches your emotions as they push, pull and stretch you.

He (Abraham Lincoln) is one of the few men in history, our own history and all history, whose religion was great enough to bridge the gulfs between the sects, to encompass us all.

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

I’ve been a nun. A Catholic nun.

You need to be happy with who you are and, whoever that is, let your little light shine.

It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.