It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

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.

Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

It's also important to develop a burden for the lost.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

My father and mother separated when I was two months old.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

A Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state, would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and to America.

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?