It's an awful risky thing to live

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.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

Jealousy destroys the Moral competence to be Successful

Customers want to make informed decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity.

When I was young I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.