Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

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.

What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

I envy my daughter's childhood.

Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.