Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

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.

With a blade at your throat, a well-connected uncle or a wealthy mother could not save you. Only you could save yourself.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Really young kids are into guitars.

Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

(I'm) much more ... standoffish and hot headed, more intense (than Rashad). Not so dead set on doing the right thing more so than the right now thing; at that age anyway.

I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.