Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

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.

An effective follow-up system is the key to an effective coaching process, which will lead to significant behavioral changes. True success is in the follow-up.

I had nothing to fear from my father.Except his disappointment.Which was no small thing.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.

I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition away from fossil fuels very, very quickly.

Never let go of the people that you love, because without them, what else have you got?

I think doing something that's different, that's out of your comfort zone is important.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

You only see the top of a lily pad, but if you pull the lily pad out of the water, it has roots and tangled weeds and all the stuff that comes with it.