My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

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.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

Desire to know God.

The ocean here is weird. It's the wrong kind of blue.

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to step back and see where the wife was wrong.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

This guy [Donald Trump] is not going to get pushed around.

The trouble with never is never, never works.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.