Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.

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.

The burning flame is a spirit of light.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Challenges prepare us for something greater! Only when it's done with love, can this greatness change us and fulfill our highest good!

I love sandwiches. Let's face it, life is better between two pieces of bread.

I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

It gives me a good feeling to know that people out there really care.

I will not be misquoted!

I smoke a little pot, every day, and I'm healthy as can be.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.