One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

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.

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)

A good book has no ending.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

I don’t often know who should read what book. It’s a little bit like trying to set people up on a date - a good match is unpredictable and mysterious.

I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.