It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

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.

Philosophy is the song of love with the music of morals.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

I don't like a lot of crazy makeup.

There's a moon in my body, but I can't see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can't hear it!

She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

All art is knowing when to stop.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.