Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise 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.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

What was broken will never be the same again.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.