It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

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.

No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.

Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching.

There are two types of people: you have people that like psychological horror and you have those that like everything in their face.