Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

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.

I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around.

Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.

Wake ... wake up ... stand up, opportunity does not wait for the lazy

The way you walk, talk, stand, and carry yourself sends messages to others that can attract or repel, encourage or discourage, and impress or depress.

The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.